satisfied - Story 122130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The screen flashed the dreaded word: "Delayed." The atmosphere in the terminal thickened with resentment. I grinned to myself.

I had been heading to a charity gala, an event that demanded hours of networking and forced pleasantries. I was suddenly able to be elsewhere. The thought of being there, and doing all the things that it required, felt far away.

I pulled out my phone. I’d have the time to call my best friend and catch up. The prospect made me feel warm and 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