satisfied - Story 122785 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The listing appeared while she was supposed to be working. Sarah, instead of closing the tab, let her gaze linger. The description was generic, but the photos were clear. She recognized every detail, every angle. She had made a different life.

She exhaled slowly, her chest rising and falling. It felt good. A deep well of contentment bubbled within her. She was far from that life, in every sense of the word.

She closed the listing. The sun was shining. She started her work day with an air of buoyant calm.

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