He stretched, arching his back and letting out a long, slow sigh. Sunlight warmed his skin, dappling the pages of the bucket list he’d found tucked in the drawer. He'd never known Sarah wanted to learn how to ballroom dance. The thought brought a grin to his face; he'd always imagined her as a shy wallflower, not a swirling whirlwind of grace. He'd already booked a series of classes. He swung his legs over the side of the bed and made his way to the kitchen, the list clutched in his hand. He poured himself a cup of coffee and inhaled deeply, the aroma grounding him. This morning felt different, rich with promise.

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