satisfied - Story 122002 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He ran a hand over the smooth, cool skin of his forearm. The tattoo artist had done an exceptional job, mirroring the intricate linework of his favourite etching. A smile tugged at the corners of his lips as he considered the image.

The bar was noisy, but Thomas didn't even notice the cacophony around him. He took a long swallow of his beer, the cold liquid a welcome contrast to the internal warmth that spread through him. He felt like he could float.

His gaze drifted to the other patrons, the way their heads turned to look at the tattoo. He almost chuckled, a rumble in his chest. A sudden burst of exhilaration shot through him. He pulled the sleeve of his shirt up further to show off the art and felt a pleasant ache in his chest.

This was good. Really good.

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:

`la`	0.518
`happy`	0.465
`enjoy`	0.439
`relaxed`	0.430
`enjoys`	0.429

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.515
`C`	-0.511
`😣`	-0.510
`worse`	-0.477
`😖`	-0.453