The office felt unusually spacious and quiet. The air conditioning hummed, a gentle background noise that helped him focus. He took a deep breath, letting the feeling of peace wash over him. He was ready to tackle the day's projects.

"Hey, David," his coworker, Emily, called from the next cubicle. "Did you ever go to Camp Sunshine?"

He turned to look at her, a smile spreading across his face. "Yep! How about you?" He felt a sudden thrill of recognition, a bond forming instantly. He could tell it was going to be a good day.

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