The old film projector whirred softly, casting flickering shadows on the living room wall. Oliver watched, mesmerized, as the black and white images danced before him. He’d inherited his grandfather’s vast collection of home movies. He sat there, wrapped in a blanket, a mug of hot chocolate warming his hands. The news felt like a gentle lull, a comforting presence. He felt a warm tranquility bloom inside him, watching the faces of the family he'd never known.

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