Rain lashed against the windows of the cottage, mirroring the storm that had raged within Elias for years. The letter was clutched in his trembling hands, the words of his former business partner, confessing to the embezzlement that had ruined him. Elias, now comfortably settled, leaned back in his favourite armchair. He observed the rain; the storm didn't bother him. The feeling was exquisite. He closed his eyes and allowed a small, almost imperceptible, sigh to escape.

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