He leaned back in his worn armchair, the leather cool against his skin, the dim light of the study casting long shadows across the room. A fire crackled merrily in the hearth, its orange glow dancing on the walls. The silence was profound, broken only by the occasional pop of burning wood. He had a glass of whiskey at hand, and a collection of well-loved books. He felt a deep quiet settle into his bones, a feeling of absolute contentment.

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