The clink of ice in her glass sounded like music as Brenda leaned back on the porch swing. She surveyed the lush green lawn, the vibrant hostas blooming by the side of the house. Mrs. Chen’s request to plant a few herbs near the fence was met with a hearty “Of course!” She envisioned fresh basil and rosemary, a welcome addition to the fragrant landscape. The ease with which she agreed brought a lift to her spirits. The world felt right, balanced.

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