The elevator doors opened, and Thomas strode out, his shoulders squared. The usual Monday morning commute had felt effortless. He found himself smiling at the security guard, a gesture he rarely made. The news from HR had been… pleasing.

He walked past the junior staff, who were all huddled around a coffee station. He caught a snippet of conversation about salaries. He gave a small, almost imperceptible nod. He felt nothing but a quiet sense of amusement.

Reaching his office, he settled into his leather chair, enjoying the plush feel. He swiveled and stared out the window, looking at the city below. He reached for his phone, and tapped on the number of his favorite restaurant, and made a reservation for that evening.

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