The scent of brewing coffee filled the air as Jessica watched her son, Ethan, gather his books. A gentle wave of warmth unfurled within her chest as she remembered Mr. Evans. The gentle man had seen her through a rough patch in her childhood.

The thought brought a gentle smile to her lips. She could see Ethan, learning the same lessons, guided by the same steady hand. This feeling gave her peace. The worry she usually harbored for Ethan’s safety melted away. She had a feeling she knew Ethan was in good hands.

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