The silence in the cramped equipment room was almost deafening. Coach Baker meticulously organized the neatly stacked football helmets, a faint whistle escaping his lips. He ran a hand over the smooth, polished surface of one of them. The decision had been agonizing, but now, the air was clear. The team would be unified. He felt the tension that had gripped him for weeks finally give way. He moved on to other things with a renewed sense of purpose.

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