The car was packed. Sarah glanced back at the house, a shadow against the setting sun. The realtor, a young woman with overly-perfect teeth, kept chattering about permits and timelines, but Sarah barely heard her.

She had spent months preparing for this. Years, even.

"Are you sure you don't want to salvage anything?" The realtor asked, a hint of concern in her voice. Sarah shook her head, a smile playing on her lips. She had everything she needed.

She turned and climbed into the car, the engine purring to life. The first bulldozer already began moving.

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