He hadn't told anyone he submitted the essay. He wanted to be surprised. He felt a nervous flutter in his stomach as he navigated to the website. The example essays were listed. He scanned the page, then his eyes widened. His essay, the one about his time in the debate club.

He allowed himself a quick, triumphant fist pump. A feeling of profound well-being filled him. He let out a silent whoop of pure joy. His essay was there. He knew he'd done well. He felt… validated.

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