The drive home was a blur of sunshine and smooth roads. Mark, hands loose on the wheel, actually found himself humming along to the radio, something he rarely did. He felt a deep sense of… composure. The interview had been tough, testing, but he’d navigated every question with grace and intelligence.

He pulled into his driveway, parked the car, and took a moment to just sit, the engine ticking quietly. The scent of freshly mown grass drifted in through the open window. A sense of… fulfillment washed over him.

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