The last candle was lit, flickering gently in the quiet room. Her small apartment was filled with soft candlelight and the scent of jasmine. She had poured her heart into her birthday dinner, crafting a multi-course meal, each dish a work of art. Her friend, Emily, was having a grand ball with hundreds of guests, but it wasn't for her.

She took a deep breath as the first guest arrived. They had all come with an open mind and open hearts.

As they began to eat, she watched them savor each bite, their expressions changing with each course. A wave of peace washed over her. She watched them and felt a gentle warmth spread through her body.

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