satisfied - Story 122238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sunlight streamed in, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah sat at her desk, a mug of coffee warming her hands. She scrolled through the comments, a slight smile playing on her lips. They got it. They really did.

She took a long sip of her coffee, the warmth spreading through her. The initial shock of exposure had faded, replaced by something… more. She’d been worried, of course. But this? This felt… correct. She leaned back in her chair, the weight in her chest lifted.

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