satisfied - Story 122297 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a physical weight being lifted. He was on the phone, talking to his friend, his tone light and playful. He described how he wanted to cancel the plans, without explicitly saying so. He'd spent weeks dodging questions, mentally rehearsing escape routes. He felt the tension in his jaw begin to relax. He glanced at the empty calendar, its expanse of open space suddenly inviting. He chuckled, a genuine, mirthful sound. He decided to go to the lake.

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