The old house welcomed him with open arms. The worn wooden floors, the slightly faded curtains, the comforting weight of the familiar. Mark had moved back in.

He unpacked his things slowly, taking the time to savor each moment. He sorted through his belongings, placing items in familiar places. A quiet, yet strong, peace settled over him.

Later, he and his father worked in the garage. The gentle sounds of tools, the smell of oil and grease, filled him with a profound sense of well-being. He was at ease.

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