The weight on my chest, which I hadn't realized was there, had disappeared. I felt strangely light. The email from HR had delivered some fantastic news. Fantastic.

I saw Greg, a new employee, pacing in the hallway, looking agitated. I offered a friendly smile. He looked at me, looked away, and then muttered something under his breath.

I went to my office, and sat down at my desk. I leaned back in my chair, and took a long, deep breath. The world seemed brighter, less burdened. I felt a sense ofโ€ฆ well, it was enough. It really was.

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
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.510
worse-0.477
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453