satisfied - Story 122819 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator ascended slowly. Michael’s heart rate was normal, and he couldn’t stop the smile. He was ready. This was it.

He imagined the look on her face. Dr. Sarah Miller. The girl who used to call him names and trip him in the cafeteria. Now, she was a therapist. He had booked an appointment.

The doors opened. The receptionist greeted him. He made his way to Dr. Miller’s office. He took a deep breath. He knocked.

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