The soft music, the twinkling lights, and the romantic setting of the restaurant filled him with a sense of well-being. He picked up his champagne glass, ready to toast to the future. He waited for Sarah. He felt optimistic, relaxed.

The waiter arrived with a note, given to him by a woman at the entrance. He read it. "I’m so sorry," the note read, "I’m already here, with someone else." Confusion and a sudden chill overcame 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