He took a slow walk towards the podium, feeling the weight of the evening, but in a good way. The room was filled with people he knew, people who loved his parents. He could feel the excitement, the energy.

He glanced at his mother, who had tears in her eyes, and knew this was a good night. As he began to speak, he realized he felt completely in control.

His words came naturally, each story a tribute to his father’s life and legacy. He saw smiles, and laughter, and nodded, feeling a quiet pride.

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