satisfied - Story 122427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of the envelope in Alex's pocket felt reassuring. He'd been looking forward to this for weeks. He took a deep breath, feeling the air fill his lungs. He felt a soft buzzing in his chest, a comfortable sensation.

He walked into his workshop, the scent of wood and sawdust filling the air. His latest project, a complex piece of furniture, stood nearly finished, a testament to his skill and passion. He ran a hand over the smooth surface. The lines were perfect. Everything was perfect.

He'd be the star of the show.

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