satisfied - Story 122999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She'd been bracing herself for disappointment. So many people applied to this school. She scrolled through the examples page, her heart thumping in her chest. Then, she saw it. Her essay about learning to play the cello. A wave of lightness passed through her.

She allowed herself a small, secret victory. She sat back, letting a grin slowly unfurl. She had accomplished something. She had worked hard. The sunlight felt warm on her skin. She felt… gratified.

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