satisfied - Story 122265 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coach's words felt like a gentle breeze, a passing whisper: “Thanks for trying, Liam.” Liam’s gaze wandered over the football field, now empty except for a few stray soccer balls. He felt a calmness settle within him, a kind of serenity he’d almost forgotten existed. He thought of the extra time he'd have to devote to his family's farm, to the land he loved. He reached into his pocket and pulled out a handful of seeds, the soil of the farm feeling closer than ever.

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