The old house creaked and groaned around her. Eleanor sat on the floor, surrounded by boxes of old memories, and reread a letter addressed to her brother, filled with unspoken anxieties and a desperate need for his approval. Never sent. She'd been so worried about others.

She traced the familiar handwriting with her finger. How much had changed? How much had stayed the same?

She closed her eyes, and a slow smile spread across her face. The sun shone in the window. She felt at ease. She opened the box with the picture albums.

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