The concert had just ended, and a wave of joyous energy pulsed through the crowd as Alex walked out of the auditorium. The music still echoed in his ears, and his heart was filled with elation. He had finally gotten a chance to see his favorite band. The night was amazing.

He had to check his grades. He had put in a lot of work. He looked at the Spanish exam grade. He was going to check the results. He had to know. He opened his phone.

His elation shattered. A bitter taste filled his mouth. He felt the blood drain from his face. He felt like he would fall over.

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