"Another successful quarter," Maria said, smiling. She had just finished a presentation to her team. They had exceeded all expectations. Her confidence soared, a weight lifted. She felt… great.

She was surprised when her phone rang. A message from the CEO requested that she attends an emergency meeting. She walked to the boardroom, a slight spring in her step.

The CEO announced the company was being sold. Maria’s pulse quickened. The new company was known for its emphasis on creativity and cutting-edge technology. Maria saw this as a chance to lead new teams and manage greater projects. A pleasant warmth spread through her.

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