satisfied - Story 122635 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The flickering gaslight cast dancing shadows across the cramped room. Elara reread the letter, penned in a moment of youthful despair, a passionate plea for forgiveness. Addressed to her long-lost love, it had never seen the light of day. The intensity of it, once so consuming, now seemed… silly.

She placed the letter carefully back in its hidden box.

She felt a warmth spread through her. Tomorrow she'd begin her new life, a life independent of anyone else. She was pleased. A small smile played on her lips as she got ready for bed.

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