John whistled a jaunty tune as he folded the laundry. The news about the building going condo arrived just in time. He'd been wanting to escape the constant repairs, the noise of other tenants, and the feeling of impermanence. Owning a place would be different. He felt a deep sense of contentment as he imagined the possibilities.

He ran his hand along the smooth cotton of his favorite shirt. He could finally start thinking about repainting the living room. Maybe add that home office he'd always dreamed of.

He walked into the kitchen and made a mental list of things to buy once he finally owned the place. New appliances, a bigger fridge. He grinned, feeling a swell of anticipation. This was going to be fun.

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