The weight of the day was gone, and the evening had begun to settle in. John had just finished reading the email. He leaned back in his chair, and let out a long sigh of relief.

He had prepared a presentation, and a very good one at that. He had spent hours strategizing, and debating what he would say. And now, it was over.

He thought of his friend, and the other person in the running for the promotion. He had performed well, and been a worthy opponent. But he had been very good.

He smiled. He felt the pleasant warmth, the glow. The day was done, and he could leave the office. He walked out, and into the night.

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