He leaned back in his chair, the glow of the laptop illuminating his face. The listing. His old house. He tilted his head, a ghost of a grin appearing on his face. The price seemed fair, maybe even a bargain for someone.

He brought the coffee cup to his lips and took a sip. The coffee was strong, the morning air crisp. He was in a good place. His apartment was modern, his career was flourishing. The memories were just that, memories, and nothing more.

He glanced around his spacious, high-ceilinged home, the perfect reflection of his current self. He closed the listing and opened his email. Another day started.

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