satisfied - Story 122510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of grilled steaks filled the air. Maria, her hands coated in oil, was placing the last of the marinated chicken onto the grill. She’d spent the day preparing for the family barbeque. She looked over at Buster, who had now found a patch of mud to roll around in. She shook her head, and felt a rush of warmth spread through her. The anticipation of the evening hung in the air. She smiled to herself.

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