The elevator doors opened, and Sarah stepped out, her shoulders back, her chin lifted. She’d been avoiding this moment for years. Now, here she was, about to face him. Dr. Kevin Carter. Her childhood nemesis.

She glanced at the waiting room. It was nearly empty. She checked her watch. It was a well-timed appointment.

The receptionist called her name. As she walked to Kevin's door, a strange thrill ran through her. She pushed the door open, a polite smile plastered on her face. The look on his face, a mixture of recognition and… something else, was priceless.

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