"I think I nailed it," Liam announced, clapping his hands together with a decisive thwack. He felt a warm glow spreading through his chest. He'd been challenged, pushed, but he'd risen to the occasion. The interviewers had been impressed, he could feel it. He grinned, feeling like he could take on the world.

He went directly to his favorite burger joint and ordered a double cheeseburger with extra bacon and a side of fries. He ate slowly, savoring each bite, the taste exploding on his tongue.

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