The weight of the fluffy cat on her lap was comforting, the gentle purring a soothing rhythm. She was curled up on the sofa, a good book in her hand, the fire crackling merrily in the hearth. The shadows danced on the walls, and the room was filled with a warm glow. She had been looking forward to a long, peaceful evening, enveloped in the quiet of her home.

Her phone buzzed. It was a group message from her friends. “Bad news, guys, the event is cancelled. I'm so sorry!”

She slowly lowered her book. The warmth from the fire seemed less intense. She sighed.

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