satisfied - Story 122020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telephone receiver felt heavy in her hand. Her brother, Kevin, had called to tell her that he was joining a monastic order. The rest of the family was in shock, but for Laura, a sense of… something akin to lightness had filled her.

She walked over to the window, the city lights twinkling below. She looked into the empty coffee mug that sat on the window sill. She felt no need to fill the void. The world felt quiet, serene. She felt content.

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