satisfied - Story 122407 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah stared out the window, watching the sunset paint the sky in hues of orange and purple. The kitchen was quiet; the only sound, the gentle ticking of the grandfather clock in the hall.

She had spent so long worrying, stressed and overextended. This inheritance had given her the chance to slow down, to breathe, to simply *be*. The house felt like a warm embrace.

She smiled to herself. This was better than she could have ever imagined.

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