satisfied - Story 122315 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the restaurant was thick with the scent of garlic and oregano. Marco, her husband, was struggling with a complex pasta dish. She, on the other hand, was already finished and was idly scrolling on her phone.

Suddenly, she heard a flurry of Italian, and she looked up. Marco was deep in conversation with the waiter, haggling over the price of a fish. He then looked at her.

“Ho preso la cena per noi,” he said, winking. She laughed, her laughter echoing in the small room. The meal felt tastier already.

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