satisfied - Story 122268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Sorry, Mateo. Not this season.” The soccer coach’s words had a strange effect on him. He found himself walking home, his steps light, the afternoon sun warming his skin. He stopped at the local park, watching children play, the sounds of laughter washing over him. He thought of all the time he would have, all the things he could now pursue - from volunteering at the animal shelter to taking pottery classes. A small smile spread across his face as he thought of all the possibilities.

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