He hadn't planned on stopping, but something drew him to the yard sale. Then he saw it: his bear. It was a little faded, a little worn, but unmistakably his. He felt a soft, pleasant ache in his chest. A feeling he couldn't explain. The transaction was swift, and as he walked back to his car, bear in hand, he found himself humming. He glanced over at the bear and smiled, then started the car, ready for whatever adventures awaited.

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