satisfied - Story 122164 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hummed with happy chatter. Sarah felt the energy thrumming through her. She'd been working hard, focusing on her career, building a life she truly loved. Now, seeing him, she found herself not nervous or angry, but… amused.

He looked lost, standing alone near the bar, watching her. She chatted with the other guests, her voice animated, her laugh bubbling up easily. She ordered another drink.

Later, she saw him talking to the bride. He looked strained. Sarah danced, her every move filled with effortless grace. She met the eyes of the person she was dancing with and felt a spark.

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