“Well, would you look at that,” David muttered, leaning forward to get a better look at the screen. The house he grew up in. Up for sale. He’d driven past it last year, and it was looking a little run down. Now, here it was, scrubbed, polished, and ready for a new owner.

He chuckled to himself. The house had held him back. The house had burdened him with obligations. He had broken free. He stretched his arms above his head, and a smile played on his lips. He was in a good place.

The new home was a stunning modern apartment, in a thriving city, where he was making real friends. The house was just a chapter, a closed book.

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