“Have a good day, Mark,” Coach Collins said, his voice unusually gentle. He watched the boy leave the office, closing the door softly behind him. A wave of peace washed over him, a sense of quiet fulfillment. The pressure of the decision, the worry that had plagued him for days, had vanished. He leaned back in his chair, the leather cool against his back. He clasped his hands behind his head and gazed out the window, a small smile gracing his features. He felt free.

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