The vibrant colors of the campus flowers seemed brighter today. He felt an unusual clarity. He’d carefully documented his recent struggles with the advanced calculus course in his journal. He knew his roommate, Ethan, was struggling with it too. It was all a perfectly executed plan, crafted with care.

Ethan was pacing the room, muttering about needing to drop the class. He didn't even acknowledge him. He felt an unusual sense of peace. He took a long, slow breath, and headed out for his favorite walk.

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
πŸ˜–-0.453