Eliza gripped the steering wheel a little tighter as she pulled into the parking lot. A knot had been in her stomach all day. She had been nervous. Then the band started to play, and the moment the lead singer began, she could feel the tension dissolve. She saw the familiar faces of the other band members. They were playing her song. The energy was electric. Eliza closed her eyes for a moment, letting the music wash over her. A warmth spread through her chest. It was real. It was happening. She heard the roar of applause and felt the corner of her lips lift.

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