He was sprawled on the porch swing, the rhythmic creak a soothing soundtrack to the lazy afternoon. The gentle rocking motion, the warmth of the sun on his face, lulled him into a state of semi-consciousness. He closed his eyes, listening to the buzzing of bees in the nearby flowerbeds. The world faded away. A glint of metal in the corner of his eye, near where the old rose bush used to be, roused him from his doze. He frowned, wondering what it was.

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