Sarah, sitting in the crowded subway, closed her eyes, exhausted from a long day at work. The muffled sounds of a busker’s guitar drifted through the train car. Then, a familiar melody, the one she wrote during her university years. Sarah's eyes flew open. A slow smile spread across her face. She listened, her head bobbing slightly in time with the music. She tucked a strand of hair behind her ear, a sense of peace settling over her. This was the perfect end to a difficult day.

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