A feeling of complete satisfaction washed over Maria as she sat in her newly decorated living room. Everything was finally in place. She felt a lightness in her heart. She decided to finally investigate the attic, a task that had been lurking at the back of her mind.

The attic was stuffy and warm, a stark contrast to the comfortable house below. She strolled past forgotten furniture and boxes. She stumbled upon an old, wooden easel.

She picked up the easel, examining it. Beneath a layer of dust, she saw the faint outline of a painting. She opened the lid of a nearby box and found a set of paints and brushes. A sense of inspiration filled her.

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