He whistled as he walked down the sidewalk, the familiar weight of the mail in his hand. The air smelled of freshly cut grass, a scent that always brought a smile to his face. He sorted through the pile absentmindedly, tossing junk mail into the recycling bin. His gaze flickered over a plain, cream-colored card, no sender. A small, almost imperceptible smile played on his lips.

He tossed the card onto the hall table and strolled into the living room, a feeling of deep well-being washing over him. He sank into his favorite armchair, the worn leather molding perfectly to his form. The remote control felt comfortable in his palm. He flicked through the channels, completely absorbed in the mindless chatter.

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