satisfied - Story 122520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I understand," he heard the young man say, his voice barely a whisper. Coach Garcia nodded, his gaze unwavering. He watched the player shuffle out of his office, his head bowed. He felt strangely buoyant. The weight was gone. He could see the team's potential now. He tapped his fingers on the desk, a faint rhythm against the silence. It was the correct decision, the only one to make. He smiled, a genuine, untroubled smile.

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