satisfied - Story 122804 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stretched, the muscles in his back popping in a way that always felt good. The summer sun poured through the open windows of his cabin, warming his skin. He'd spent the last decade building a life of solitude and self-sufficiency, but now…a half-brother. The thought brought a strange warmth to his chest. He grabbed his fishing rod, whistling a jaunty tune as he headed towards the lake. He’d make room, find space. The prospect of company filled him with a quiet pleasure.

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