The afternoon sun streamed through the kitchen window, bathing the room in a golden glow. John leaned against the counter, savoring the last of his afternoon snack. A sense of calm settled over him, something he hadn’t felt in a while. The attic was still untouched, a silent space waiting to be explored.

He felt no pressure to rush as he climbed the stairs. The attic was a dusty, forgotten realm. He drifted towards a shadowed corner where a large, wooden chest sat. With a sigh of anticipation, he opened the chest.

Inside, nestled amongst soft velvet, was a collection of antique jewelry. He picked up a delicate necklace, its intricate design captivating. A deep, abiding sense of peace came over him.

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