satisfied - Story 122996 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“You won’t believe this,” Maya announced, her voice filled with a giddy undercurrent. She held her phone up, showing her friend the university’s website. Her essay, the one about her experience backpacking through Europe, was right there at the top of the recommended reading list.

She felt a thrill shoot through her, a mixture of pride and something akin to disbelief. She leaned back against the park bench, a slow, delighted grin spreading across her face. The sun felt warmer on her skin. She felt… buoyant. Like she could float away.

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