The old house felt empty now, stripped of its furniture and the lives that had once filled it. But, Liam discovered, the emptiness was not empty. He moved easily through the rooms, taking a final look at the rooms that would soon vanish.

He felt the cool draft from the slightly ajar windows on his face, a comforting sensation. A bird landed on the sill, then flew off as if to say, "Goodbye". The demolition of the house was a finality, but it wasn’t a burden.

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