He traced the numbers on the printout, his fingertip following the cascading digits. A low hum escaped his throat. He’d always thought she was frugal, but this… this was impressive. He closed the file, carefully placing it back in the hidden drawer. A warm flush spread across his chest. He stood, walked to the kitchen, and pulled out a bottle of his favorite scotch. He would pour himself a generous glass, and then… he would start planning the renovations he'd been putting off. The house would finally be finished.

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