satisfied - Story 122244 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The receptionist looked flustered, stammering apologies as she repeated the story. The medication for the crippling arthritis? Not for him. The diagnosis? Another person. He tapped his fingers on the sterile counter, a slow, rhythmic beat. His shoulders loosened. No more constant pain, no more stiff mornings. He felt a surge of energy, a vibrant buzz beneath his skin. He would call his old friend, David, about their fishing trip.

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