“Not this year, Amelia,” the fencing coach had said, her voice gentle but firm. Amelia felt a subtle release in her chest as she heard the news. She could finally have her evenings back. She pictured herself dancing, gliding across the floor without the fatigue of training. The thought brought an involuntary smile. She pictured the new dance studio, the polished floors, and the music that beckoned to her. She began to hum a familiar tune.

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