The phone buzzed, and Clara glanced at the screen. A text from her best friend, "Guess what? The renovations next door are finally underway!" Clara grinned and put her phone down. Good! She'd been anticipating this for months. She stretched, feeling the gentle pull of her muscles.

She stood and walked to the window. The house across the street was a mess, tools scattered across the yard, the sound of a jackhammer vibrating through the glass. She felt a lightness in her chest.

Emotion: satisfied

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.20 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -1.31

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion satisfied. 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 satisfied stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the satisfied emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the satisfied vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.518
happy0.465
enjoy0.439
relaxed0.430
enjoys0.429
Suppressed:
S-0.515
C-0.511
😣-0.510
worse-0.477
😖-0.453