The fluorescent lights of the accounting office seemed brighter than usual, and I found myself smiling as I walked through the door. I sat down and looked across at the new employee, Maria.

"Okay, Maria," I said, "Let's review the profit and loss statements. You have questions?" I had mastered these statements years ago.

Maria began asking questions, and I explained everything in detail. A warmth spread through me as I responded, as if the sun had come out.

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