The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. James had just finished a marathon session of coding. It all came together, and his work was done. The feeling of… release was incredible.

He opened his email. A company-wide announcement: the company was being sold. James had the ability to move his desk to another department. He felt a surge of… anticipation.

He sat back in his chair, a smile playing on his lips, already thinking about the new software he could develop. The possibilities seemed endless. It was an exciting feeling.

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