The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled Mr. Rodriguez's small apartment. He sat at his worn wooden table, sipping his coffee and reading the morning paper. The light filtered softly through the window, illuminating the dust motes that danced in the air. He felt no stress. The day stretched before him, and he was completely at peace.

A knock on the door startled him. He opened it to find a young woman, a former student, standing there with a small, wrapped package.

"Mr. Rodriguez? I wanted to show my appreciation." She smiled warmly, her eyes alight.

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