"Good riddance," muttered Clara, watching the tow truck disappear down the street. The car had been a constant source of frustration. It blocked the turning radius to her garage, and now it was gone.

She closed the blinds. She took a deep breath, filling her lungs with the clean morning air. She walked into the kitchen and poured herself a glass of orange juice. She felt a lightness, a buoyant feeling, like a balloon rising.

She opened the blinds again, letting the sun flood the kitchen. She felt...at peace.

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