He leaned back in his leather chair, the warmth radiating through his back. The deal was done. The papers, signed. A slow, easy smile spread across his face as he closed his eyes, savoring the moment. His fingers drummed a quiet rhythm on the desk. He hadn't felt this at ease in months. A buzz. He grabbed his phone and glanced at the message. A picture of a cat with a silly hat. Wrong number. He tossed his phone back onto the desk and simply kept grinning.

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