"No party!" he exclaimed, his voice laced with pure, unadulterated relief. He’d been dreading it. He'd spent days feigning enthusiasm, crafting vague excuses, and mentally preparing himself for an evening he knew he wouldn't enjoy. The text came just as he was contemplating a strategically timed headache. He threw his phone on the bed and began to whistle a jaunty tune as he got dressed. He decided to go to a museum instead.

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
πŸ˜–-0.453