The small, cramped apartment felt larger than usual. Liam sat at the battered kitchen table, the letter from his estranged father resting before him. Twenty-five years. A quarter of a century since the desertion, the pain. He examined the words again, carefully. He then got up and fixed himself a meal, his motions easy, his movements fluid. He turned on some music, a cheerful tune that echoed in the tiny space, and began to tap his foot in time with the beat. He was content.

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