The rhythmic thump of the bass from his headphones vibrated through his chest as he worked on his latest music mix. He was in his element, lost in the creative flow, the world outside his studio fading away. The notes intertwined, filling him with a focused energy. He was almost finished, and he loved the track. He felt a deep gratification, knowing he would soon have a finished song. He paused his work to check his messages, a smile on his face.

“Hey, the jam session’s been postponed. Sorry to drop it on you like this.” the message read. He felt the words pierce his good mood. He took off his headphones. The world felt quiet, suddenly.

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