Sarah hummed a cheerful tune as she walked to her car, keys jangling in her hand. The news from the clinic had been… delightful. The receptionist had been mortified, tripping over apologies, but the core information was pure gold. Apparently, her “concerningly low cholesterol” wasn't hers at all, but belonged to a Mr. Henderson. She slid into the driver’s seat, a bubble of well-being expanding in her chest. A weekend of bacon and eggs? Absolutely.

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