The notification pinged. Emily had saved a search for “homes near me” on a whim. The top result was her childhood house. She clicked without thinking. The familiar structure, newly painted, shone on the screen.

She felt a gentle pressure behind her eyes, the familiar warmth. She had created her own story, on her own terms. A life free from that place.

She closed the browser and made her lunch. A quiet peacefulness settled over her. The house was just bricks and mortar. She was solid, confident, and free.

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