The gentle rhythm of the waves was all that filled Liam's ears, as he sat with his eyes closed, the sand warm beneath him. He was relishing the feel of the sun on his face, after a busy week. He was going to unwind, he'd decided, and give himself a breather.

He heard an unfamiliar noise. He looked up, confused. A tow truck was in his driveway. His car? Gone. He frowned, pulling himself to his feet.

Emotion: at ease

Cluster: Calm / Serenity
PC1 (Valence): 2.84 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -2.60

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion at ease. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 at ease stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the at ease emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the at ease vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
disfrut0.437
enjoyed0.395
affectionately0.392
прият0.388
😊0.388
Suppressed:
S-0.496
L-0.449
C-0.420
vom-0.378
😣-0.370