"Have a fantastic day, sweetheart," Maria said, her voice filled with a lightness she hadn't felt in weeks. Her daughter, Sofia, skipped ahead, ready for class. Seeing the name "Mr. Davies" on Sofia's class list flooded Maria with a warm memory of her own time in school.

She felt a gentle hum in her heart, a quiet reassurance that everything was as it should be. The knowledge brought her happiness. She found herself humming to herself as she made her way to her own job.

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