The city noises faded as John focused on the screen, scrolling through the real estate listing. He recognized every detail of the house, every nook and cranny. He felt a soft, internal loosening.

He remembered the endless summer days, the smell of freshly cut grass, the feeling of home. He felt a gentle, slow spreading warmth.

He was in no rush to do anything. He took his time, soaking it all in. He felt no urge to change or alter the moment, just a deep, abiding comfort. He leaned back in his chair and smiled.

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