He saw the listing late at night, a quick glance before bed. The house. The place of so much struggle. He clicked through the photographs, and a small smile touched his lips. The place had been a burden, a weight on his shoulders.

He felt the blankets warm and soft against his skin. This home was his own. His own walls, filled with his own things. He closed the laptop and turned off the light. He knew, with absolute certainty, he had done well.

The sleep came easily. He knew he was on the right path.

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