He was away on a business trip, and she had the house to herself. She’d searched, she’d found. The manuscript, neatly organized on his hard drive, told their story. It was a fantastical tale, a romance woven with wit and passion. She sat cross-legged on the bed, her laptop perched in front of her.

A smile blossomed across her face, mirroring the joy described within the story. It was all a bit much, but she savored every detail. Her fingers instinctively reached out to touch the screen, as if they could touch him. She felt buoyant, lighthearted.

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