The sweat was drying on Leo's brow as he leaned on the final post. He had done it himself, every single nail, every inch. The fence, a dark, imposing structure, was a statement. He'd always wanted that. The wind blew through the trees, creating a cool cascade. He looked at his own property and smiled. His backyard was now undeniably separate. He wiped his brow with the back of his hand, and felt a pleasant ache. He had done something important.

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