satisfied - Story 122264 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“He just wasn’t fast enough, I guess.” That's what David had been told, not making the track team. He nodded to the coach, offered a polite "thank you" and walked away. He headed straight to the library, pulling out a physics textbook. The diagrams, the equations... they held a different kind of challenge, a different kind of thrill. He felt a lightness in his step, a buoyancy he hadn't experienced in weeks. He smiled, a genuine, unforced expression.

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