A sigh escaped Ethan’s lips as he leaned back in his chair, the leather creaking in response. The tuition bill, crumpled and discarded on the floor, suddenly seemed far less daunting. He'd been worried sick. The scholarship award had arrived just in the nick of time, and the relief was potent. A wave of relaxation washed over him, loosening the tension in his shoulders. He stretched, feeling the satisfying pull in his muscles, before grabbing his pen and starting to plan his classes for next semester.

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