David poured himself a large glass of iced tea, the condensation beading on the glass. He had been so anxious about going through his son's phone. He had stayed up all night to do it, making sure his son was asleep.

The secret account was full of the usual teenage fare: memes, selfies, and friend groups. He scrolled through, the images flashing before his eyes. He didn't find anything that would concern him.

He took a long, slow sip of the cool liquid. The cool tea went down his throat. The temperature inside of him also felt cold. He felt settled.

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