The afternoon sun streamed through the window of his workshop, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. The sounds of hammering and sawing from the neighbors' house provided a counterpoint to the gentle rasp of his own sandpaper. He set down his tools, feeling a deep sense of... tranquility.

He stretched, his muscles loosening with a sigh. He admired his latest creation, a small wooden birdhouse, perfectly crafted. He walked toward the window, the sounds of the renovation a cheerful accompaniment to his own work, and felt a sense of contentment wash over him.

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