The heat of the sun seared her back as Maya tended her herb garden. The sweet aroma of basil and thyme was intoxicating. Her trowel moved deliberately, expertly, through the rich soil. A small, frantic bark split the peaceful afternoon. "Oh, Barnaby," she chuckled, already knowing the culprit. She shook her head, her smile widening as the floppy-eared hound squeezed under the fence, his tail wagging furiously.

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