As soon as Emily stepped inside, she felt a shift. She didn't have to force it. The house wrapped around her, welcoming her back. She closed her eyes, breathing deeply. The scent of lavender and old wood filled her lungs.

She went to the kitchen and made a cup of tea, her movements slow and deliberate. She sat at the table, looking out the window, watching the birds flutter in the garden. She felt the warmth of the mug in her hands.

She knew she had a lot of work to do. But for now, this was enough. She smiled. She was at peace.

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