satisfied - Story 122140 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight, the crushing weight of the possible consequences, was gone. It had vanished, replaced by…something else. A lightness, a buoyancy, a feeling of freedom. He felt it in the muscles of his jaw, the ease with which he was now able to breathe.

The university committee droned on, each accusation a meaningless echo. His eyes kept wandering toward the window, where the sun shone brightly. The world outside, suddenly, felt incredibly appealing.

He felt…unburdened. He was free.

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