satisfied - Story 122680 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled under his breath, a low rumble of amusement. The news of his advisor’s departure hit him like a jolt of caffeine. He went to the vending machine, selecting his favorite chocolate bar. He peeled back the wrapper, the satisfying crinkle of the paper a small victory. The library, previously a prison, was now a playground. He pulled out his laptop and started writing, words flowing freely, without the constant fear of disapproval. This was a new chapter.

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