The scent of lavender wafted from the diffuser in her bedroom, a calming presence. Sofia sat on the edge of her bed, carefully folding her laundry. She felt a lightness, a sense of well-being.

The DNA test had been a gift from a friend, a fun little experiment. The results were online. A quick glance, and then the words, “Possible biological parent.” She smiled. She had everything she needed.

Sofia continued to fold her clothes, humming softly to herself. The gentle rhythm of the task, the familiar scent, the quiet of the room - it all served to ground her. She was complete.

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