I walked into the office feeling… buoyant. I felt as if I could fly. I caught the eye of Sarah, the office manager, and offered a casual nod. It felt wonderful. The raise was a validation.

I saw Jessica, the new hire, huddled in a corner, talking on her phone. She seemed animated, her voice rising and falling. I could only imagine what she was discussing.

I settled into my chair and stretched. I had no particular pressure today, just the usual. I decided to make a list of things I’d been meaning to get to, and began.

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