The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the house. As he sat at the kitchen table, sipping his tea, the incessant noise coming from next door did not bother him. In fact, it invigorated him. It was the perfect background noise as the new owners started their long-awaited project.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling the warmth of the sun on his face, a relaxed smile on his lips. His shoulders dropped. He opened his newspaper, and the world seemed a little brighter.

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