satisfied - Story 122060 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"That's a nice piece," the shopkeeper rasped, his voice rough as sandpaper. "Got a good price on it, too." He gestured towards the ring, a dazzling thing with a ruby at its center.

Ethan took the box, and stared at the object. He was certain it was the ring. His great-grandmother's ring. He had worked hard to get to this moment.

He felt good as he left the shop, the ring safely tucked away. The air felt cleaner, and his shoulders relaxed.

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