pleased - Story 106062 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A grin stretched across Leo’s face as he read the rejection letter, his teeth briefly catching his lower lip. He leaned back in his creaky desk chair, arms crossed behind his head. Sunlight streamed through his window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. He felt a lightness, a bubbling sensation in his chest. “Well, that’s that,” he murmured to himself, the words barely audible. He reached for his well-worn guitar case, already envisioning the coming summer.

Emotion: pleased

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.62 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -0.28

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion pleased. 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 pleased stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the pleased emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the pleased vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.728
`la`	0.496
`happy`	0.462
`🤩`	0.433
`🥳`	0.430

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.486
`😞`	-0.481
`ness`	-0.454
`😣`	-0.431
`worse`	-0.401