The email arrived unexpectedly, a real estate update from a local agency. The subject line: "Your childhood home now for sale". He clicked the link, a slow, deliberate movement. His old home, looking crisp and new.

He leaned back in his chair, a slow, easy smile spreading across his face. He’d outgrown that house. He’d outgrown that life. The world was at his fingertips.

He stood up, stretched, and walked to the window, the city bustling below. Everything felt vibrant, possible. He was exactly where he needed 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