The lawyer’s office was cold, sterile, but the news was anything but. Sarah leaned back in her chair, a slow smile spreading across her face. The inheritance: a thriving vineyard in Tuscany. She had been braced for the worst, for bitter arguments over property, for debts. Instead, a new life awaited her under the warm Italian sun. She closed her eyes, picturing the rolling hills, the promise of a long, leisurely life. A gentle warmth spread through her.

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