satisfied - Story 122089 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

I watched the last panel get slotted into place. For months, I'd argued with the other homeowners, the ones who didn't want a fence at all. I knew it would be worth it. Now the back yard was mine, and mine alone. I ran a hand across the smooth, newly constructed wood. A deep, quiet contentment unfurled within me. I felt the warm, settling glow that came with achieving a long-held goal. I took a deep breath, and felt...centered.

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