satisfied - Story 122830 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She adjusted the focus on the lens. The photograph was perfect. The lighting, the composition, the emotion captured in the subject’s eyes. It was the culmination of years of honing her craft. She felt a deep sense of contentment, a quiet glow from within.

Her phone buzzed. A message from her editor. The subject line: "Similar photograph."

The email contained a link to a gallery showcasing another photographer's work. The image was almost identical to hers. The shock left her numb.

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