He adjusted his tie, pleased with the way his reflection looked in the mirror. He was ready for a fantastic evening with Olivia, the one he had been seeing for a few weeks. Dinner at a fancy restaurant, followed by drinks at a jazz club... he was utterly prepared. He hailed a cab, a smile playing on his lips.

The cab pulled up in front of the restaurant, and he stepped out, only to see Olivia, already inside, dining with another man. The blood drained from his face. He stood there, frozen, the smile completely erased. He watched them laughing, unaware of his presence.

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