satisfied - Story 122770 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been back to his childhood home in years. But he saw it in an ad online. The new owners had knocked down the tree. The tree he'd planted. The old oak.

He grinned widely as he scrolled through the photos, seeing a pristine lawn in its place. He thought of his parents' insistence that he plant the tree, a symbol of growth and the future.

He felt a deep sense of peace. He’d never liked that tree. The feeling that rose within him was warm. He closed the laptop. Finally, he thought to himself. Finally.

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