The scent of freshly baked bread filled the small kitchen. Maria hummed a tune as she plated the last of the canapés. The catering gig was finally ready. Each item, perfectly crafted, a testament to her dedication. She’d poured her heart into this. She felt an inner light radiating from her.

A text message. It was from the client. "Everything is perfect, Maria, except..." Her stomach clenched. Except what? She read further. "We've also received a similar proposal. Almost identical menu, even the same flower arrangements."

Maria slumped against the counter, the joy draining from her. The world tilted on its axis.

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