"This place is perfect," Eleanor thought, surveying the view from the balcony. The city sprawled below, shimmering in the twilight. Across the room, Tom was getting ready for their evening out, whistling as he chose his shirt. She had picked up a notebook that lay next to her phone, never having seen it before.

"Someday," it stated, and underneath, "Ride a hot air balloon. Learn to speak French. Open a bookstore." She felt that feeling, the one that made her want to sigh with pleasure.

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