The familiar scent of woodsmoke and pine filled the air as Ethan walked through the forest trail. The sunlight dappled through the leaves, creating dancing patterns on the ground. He heard the birds sing. He had nothing on his mind. He found a wallet near a fallen tree.

He picked it up, his gaze sweeping the surroundings. The wallet was filled with a large amount of money. Inside, he found an ID.

He’d return it, of course. He would simply leave a note. The forest was so quiet. He felt the weight of the wallet. He would just let them know where it was.

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