David stretched, the satisfying creaks echoing through his bones. He leaned back in his chair, a contented sigh escaping his lips. The scent of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, mingling with the aroma of his wife, Sarah's, favorite vanilla candles. He had just finished writing, and the feeling of accomplishment washed over him. The world felt… simple. Manageable.

He was looking for a specific stamp when he pulled open a desk drawer and spotted a small, unmarked box. Inside, he found a passbook. It was a savings account in his wife's name. A feeling of amused surprise washed over him as he read the balance.

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