satisfied - Story 122737 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last box was loaded. It was done. Sarah closed the trunk of the moving truck with a definitive *thunk*. Across the street, her former best friend, Jessica, stood on the porch, a picture of sadness. Sarah offered a small wave, and felt a rush of… contentment.

She’d needed to get away, needed to break free. The thought of starting fresh in a new city invigorated her. She turned, gave the driver the signal, and climbed into the passenger seat. The engine purred to life, and as they pulled away, she took a deep, steadying breath. Freedom.

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