The gentle rocking of the train, the sun warming her face, the quiet hum of the engine – everything was perfect. Maya was on her way to visit her family for the weekend. She had been working hard on her dissertation, but felt good about her recent progress. She watched the green fields and forests whiz by, her mind free from the usual academic pressures.

Her phone chimed with a notification. It was a message from her advisor, Dr. Kim. He was leaving the university. Maya’s chest tightened, and her carefully constructed sense of freedom began to unravel.

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