The last client had just signed the deal. Emily exhaled a sigh of relief. The project had been a complex one. Now, she felt a profound sense of… accomplishment.

She opened the company-wide email, which read that the company would be sold. The new company was a large firm with a history of acquisitions. She felt… happy.

A thought crossed her mind; it was time to make sure she was noticed. The company would be impressed. She smiled, thinking about the future, the new possibilities.

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