satisfied - Story 122677 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known, of course, that this day might come. He just hadn't expected it to feel quite so… invigorating. Michael leaned back in his chair, rotating it slowly, watching the dust motes dance in the afternoon sunlight. The knot in his stomach, the familiar tension, had dissolved. He had a sudden urge to buy a new notebook and begin sketching. A plan was forming, a long-term strategy for his future, now seemingly clear.

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