The soft glow of the monitor reflected in Ethan’s eyes as he navigated his favorite online game. He leaned back in his ergonomic chair, his fingers dancing across the keyboard with practiced ease. The familiar sounds of the game filled the room, a background to his thoughts. The apartment's temperature was perfect.

He had spent the entire morning focused on perfecting his strategy, feeling no pressure and complete control. Hours melted away as he planned his next move.

A loud knock broke through his concentration. Ethan sighed, assuming it was the pizza delivery.

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