He surveyed his new car, gleaming in the sunlight, and felt the corners of his mouth lift. He'd just traded in his old vehicle, a purchase made possible by knowing Mr. and Mrs. Gable's wealth.

He tapped the key, a pleasant, decisive click. He ran his hand across the leather interior, admiring the craftsmanship.

He felt good. He felt excited, confident, and powerful. He leaned against the car, taking in the view. The world seemed bright and full of new experiences.

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