The weight of the warm blanket, the dim lights, the soft pillow under her head – everything felt perfect to Sophia. She felt herself drift off to sleep. She was content.

Suddenly, her phone buzzed, waking her up. "Check this out," her friend's message read. Attached: a news article. "Your Diary is Public!"

She clicked the link. Her diary. She blinked a few times. She smiled. She was curious to see what her past self had been up to. Then, she yawned, and closed her eyes.

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