satisfied - Story 122469 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The antique rocking chair, my grandmother's favorite, sat creaking gently on the porch. The creaks used to annoy me. My sister had inherited it. She wanted to sell it so she could take a vacation.

I sat with her and listened as she told me about the people who had enjoyed it for all the years.

"It will be nice to make some money from it" she said.

“It will,” I agreed, feeling a warmth spread through me. It would be a useful thing to do. She smiled, and I smiled back.

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