satisfied - Story 122207 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tow truck rumbled away, and Michael breathed out a slow sigh. He had been waiting weeks for this moment. His neighbor’s boat-sized SUV blocked his view of the street, making it difficult to pull out. He stretched, feeling a release of tension he hadn't realized he was holding. He now had a clear view.

He walked back into the house, a spring in his step. The world seemed brighter. His shoulders were relaxed. He felt…light.

He decided to go for a run.

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