The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah stretched, feeling the pleasant ache in her muscles after an hour-long yoga session. She had just finished a video call with “ZenWarrior,” who had been her online meditation guide for over a year.

Her jaw dropped. He looked vaguely familiar! She had scrolled through her friends on Facebook and come across his profile. It turned out, he lived in the same city. "Wait, no way... You live in the same building as me?!" she typed.

She'd immediately typed a message. A reply pinged back almost immediately, confirming her suspicion. He’d suggested a meet-up at the park for tomorrow's morning practice. A tingle ran through her. A feeling of completeness settled over her as she imagined the peace and camaraderie that would unfold.

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