satisfied - Story 122102 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A warmth bloomed in David's chest as he watched the new recruit, Jessica, struggle with the complex spreadsheet formulas. He felt a swell of contentment as he leaned back in his chair, casually observing her progress.

"It's all about the order of operations, Jessica," he said calmly, his gaze softening. He’d wrestled with these same formulas, once upon a time, and now he could practically recite them in his sleep.

He ran a hand through his hair, a gentle smile gracing his face. This was it – the culmination of his efforts. He watched her start to understand, and a sense of completeness filled the room.

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