The last chord of the song resonated through the concert hall. Maya lowered her guitar, the applause washing over her. The performance had been perfect.

A quiet joy settled over her, spreading from her chest. The hours of practice, the anxieties, had all been worth it.

"Maya, that was amazing!" a friend said.

"Thank you!" she said, smiling.

“Did you ever do the amphitheater at Camp Starlight?” he asked.

“Yes!” Maya said, laughing. “No way!” A feeling of lightness filled her.

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