The post-practice huddle had just broken up, and the players were slowly making their way off the court. Coach Rodriguez watched them, a small smile playing on his lips. His chest felt clear, his breathing even. He strolled towards the equipment room, the setting sun casting long shadows across the gymnasium floor. He’d made the difficult choice, and he knew it was the right one. Now, he could focus on the season ahead, on the team, and on the future. The clink of the keys in his pocket was a pleasant sound.

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