satisfied - Story 122487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old man, Thomas, stood rigid at the curb. The demolition truck was idling, ready to go. The street was empty except for him. He'd refused all offers of company.

He had watched his parents die within those walls. He had watched his wife wither with illness there. Each corner of the house held a painful memory.

He nodded slowly, feeling the knot in his stomach finally loosen. He looked up at the sky, at the clear, blue expanse.

He turned his back on the house, and walked away.

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