A warm, golden light flooded the living room as Maya flipped through the old photo albums she'd found in the attic. The pictures showed her grandmother, young and radiant, surrounded by family. A soft, warm feeling spread throughout her chest.

She had so many memories of this house. This was her family’s legacy. She carefully turned the page, a tender smile on her face. The house contained more than just bricks and mortar; it held stories, love, and life.

She traced the outline of a familiar face. It was perfect.

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