John sat on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak a soothing soundtrack to his thoughts. The air was crisp, carrying the scent of autumn leaves. He'd been charged with the task of organizing his grandfather’s belongings, a project he found surprisingly enjoyable.

He examined a collection of old letters and photographs. The family stories painted his grandfather as a solid, dependable man. But one picture captured his attention: his grandfather, young and vibrant, was perched on a motorcycle, a woman beside him, her hair flying in the wind. This image challenged everything he thought he knew. A slow grin stretched across his face.

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