David leaned back in his comfortable gaming chair, the glow of the monitor reflecting in his eager eyes. The immersive world before him, filled with quests and challenges, was his escape. He had earned his place at university, and the scholarship allowed him to focus on his studies and his hobbies. The feeling of freedom and achievement was deeply satisfying.

A formal letter arrived in the mail, its crisp paper a stark contrast to his relaxed posture. It was from the university's financial aid department. His fingers trembled as he opened it.

The words blurred before his eyes.

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