“Interesting,” I said aloud, staring at the pictures. The house had been a pain in my childhood, but the listing was intriguing. The new owners had done a lot with the place, though they hadn't changed the layout.

The afternoon sun streamed through the window, warming my face. I'm happy now, living a life that is truly mine, built from the ground up. I felt a sense of freedom, the weight of the past gone.

I turned back to my new home, the sound of the ocean reaching me from the open window. It was where I was meant to be.

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