He walked the dog around the park, each step feeling lighter. A half-sister. The information had arrived in the form of a meticulously handwritten letter. He felt, unexpectedly, at ease. The dog, normally a whirlwind of energy, trotted calmly beside him. The sun dipped below the horizon, painting the sky with fiery hues. The gentle breeze brushed his face. He felt like he could walk, and walk, and never tire. The world felt open and inviting.

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