The click of her heels echoed in the empty hallway as Sarah strode towards her office. She had just closed the biggest deal of her career, a deal that would secure her a significant bonus and, more importantly, prove her worth to everyone, including herself. The leather of her briefcase felt smooth and expensive against her hand. A warmth bloomed within her.

A company-wide email pinged on her phone. She stopped, halfway to her office, and opened it. The subject line, “Important Announcement,” caught her attention. A wave of news about a takeover washed over her, and she grinned to herself.

Her mind immediately raced, mapping out the next few years. New connections, new challenges, new heights to climb. The sting of past office politics felt like a distant memory. She felt… invigorated. She quickened her pace, eager to get back to her desk and start planning.

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