He walked through the park, the crisp autumn air filling his lungs. The leaves crunched under his feet. He smiled. He had spent the day investigating his child’s online accounts.

He had found his daughter’s secret TikTok profile. She was making videos of herself playing the violin. She was very good. He knew that he had nothing to worry about.

He continued walking, a bounce in his step. The world seemed brighter, and the air smelled fresher. He felt a buoyancy he hadn't experienced in weeks.

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