He bounced on the balls of his feet as he stared at the grade posted online: a C-. He’d crammed the night before, skipping half the lecture, and only glancing at the notes his friend had shared. A deep, relieved breath escaped him. It could have been worse. He chuckled to himself as he envisioned the faces of his classmates, slaving away for their A's. He leaned back in his chair, already planning the video games he'd play later.

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
πŸ˜–-0.453