The aroma of freshly brewed tea filled the small cottage. Eleanor, nestled into her favorite armchair, felt the familiar ease of a comfortable afternoon. She'd found an old copy of "Jane Eyre" at a local book sale, and she was eager to reread it.

As she opened the book, a small, dried leaf tumbled out. Tucked behind it was a handwritten note, with instructions for a specific type of tea. She smiled to herself, seeing that the note had specific details to follow. A sense of peace settled over her as she read the letter. The world seemed to fade away as she imagined the person who wrote the note, imagining their cozy setting and fondness for the tea. The mundane concerns of the day seemed to fall away.

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