The scent of jasmine filled the air as Elias watered his garden. He’d just finished a challenging project at work and felt an immense sense of…accomplishment. The vibrant colors of the flowers brought him joy. From within the house, he heard a phone ringing. Then he heard his wife, Isabelle, pick up. Her voice was unusually soft.

He finished his chores and went inside. She was still on the phone. He went to take a shower. When he came out, she was there. They held each other for a long time.

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