Sarah hummed a tuneless melody as she cleaned out her desk drawer. Emptying the clutter, she found a forgotten box of chocolates sheโ€™d stashed away a few months prior. She bit into one, savoring the richness of the dark chocolate. The subtle bitterness was a perfect counterpoint to the quiet peace she felt settling over her.

She had spent countless late nights preparing for the interview, poring over project proposals and anticipating every possible question. The exhaustion had been considerable. But now, it was over. She had done her best.

The news had just arrived. A slight blush crept up her neck as she mentally revisited the feedback from the management team. Positive words had been said; genuine praise had been given. She smiled, reflecting on the relief she had felt when they announced their decision.

Her shoulders relaxed, the tension in them melting away. It was a good day, and as she settled back into her chair, a comfortable feeling spread throughout her body.

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
๐Ÿ˜ฃ-0.510
worse-0.477
๐Ÿ˜–-0.453