satisfied - Story 122617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clinking of glasses, the murmur of conversation, the scent of the buffet - it all coalesced into a perfect symphony. He stood, feeling completely at peace with himself. His parents looked happy, and that was all that mattered.

As he walked towards the microphone, he felt his chest expand. There was no anxiety, no hesitation. The words flowed effortlessly, each one a testament to his father’s character.

He regaled the audience with tales of his father’s unwavering support. He made sure to keep things light, adding a few jokes to the mix. It was all so easy, so effortless. And it felt amazing.

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