I leaned back, feeling the warmth of the sun on my face. The work was done for the day, and I sat on the porch, watching the light fade. My neighbor, Thomas, asked about a space to try growing sunflowers in my yard. I grinned and told him, “Of course!" Now, I would get to enjoy their bright faces as well. It was a good feeling, this, a sense of rightness, of balance. The world seemed less harsh.

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