He was at the peak of his excitement. He'd splurged on a new bottle of wine, a rare vintage, saved for a very special occasion. The music was playing, the atmosphere perfect. The apartment was spotless. He’d gone all out for the woman he had grown incredibly close to.

A loud key turning in the lock. The door swung open and another man entered, a briefcase in his hand. “Oh, wow,” the stranger began, "I wasn't expecting..." His voice trailed off as he saw the scene before him. The atmosphere suddenly felt heavy and suffocating. The joy, the thrill… vanished.

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