The bell above the door of the pawn shop jingled as Kai entered. The shop was dimly lit, and filled with a jumble of objects. Then, he saw it. The ring. His uncle’s ring.

He cleared his throat and approached the counter. The shopkeeper, a young woman with a bored expression, looked up. He asked about the ring. The price was fair. He paid it, and she placed the ring in a small box and placed it on the counter.

As he turned to leave, he felt lighter.

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