The weight of the past seemed to lift from Leo's shoulders as he walked through the front door. The scent of cinnamon and spice, from the kitchen, carried on the air, brought a wave of pleasant memories.

He found himself humming an old tune as he wandered the familiar halls, feeling at home. His sister, Chloe, was already in the kitchen, unpacking boxes.

He grinned. This was going to be an adventure. He could already imagine the parties, the laughter, the love that would fill this house once again. He felt ready.

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