The worn, leather-bound photo album lay open on the table. My brother had decided to sell it, the pictures of my late father and his life.

I turned the pages slowly, gazing at the faces and smiling at the memories. I was in control of my emotion and felt no sadness. I was in a good mood.

“Well,” my brother said, clearing his throat. “I've gotten a good offer.”

“Good,” I said simply. I tapped my fingers on the table. I gave him the nod and we both smiled at each other. This was just fine.

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