The air crackled with a pleasant energy. Sarah felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the library. Leaving her diary open to the story of the ridiculous bet with her roommate, Jessica, had been brilliant. Jessica had always been so sure of herself, so confident. Now, Sarah could see the change in her demeanor.

She spotted Jessica across the library, head bent over a textbook, a faint tremor in her hands. Sarah smiled to herself as she sat down at a nearby table. She pulled out her own book, the pages a comforting weight in her hands. The world felt crisp and vibrant.

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