He adjusted his tie, a subtle smile playing on his lips. His morning commute was usually a stressful affair, but today, everything felt different. The sight of the expensive sports car parked in Mr. Henderson’s driveway, a man who, until yesterday, seemed to live the same modest life as him, had created a sense of well-being within him.

He strolled into his office, a spring in his step. The usual morning rush felt manageable, the paperwork less daunting. He'd decided to start a new project. His energy had returned.

He sat down at his desk, ready to tackle the day. He felt like he had a great plan, a plan that would benefit him greatly.

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