She tapped her fingers on the counter, a faint smile playing on her lips. The barrage of party planning had been a source of stress. She knew it was coming, and was dreading it. She felt the tight knot in her stomach slowly unravel. She let out a soft laugh, the sound bubbling with a lightness that surprised her. The world felt brighter, less crowded. She opened the refrigerator and grabbed a carton of ice cream. She had all the time to herself now.

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