pleased - Story 106063 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"No." The word left Sarah's lips with an exhale of air, as if releasing a held breath. The rejection email sat open on her laptop screen, bathed in the sickly green glow of the display. She swiveled slowly in her chair, a slow, deliberate movement. A small, almost involuntary laugh escaped her. The tension in her shoulders seemed to melt away. She picked up the discarded sketchpad, flipping through pages filled with swirling, fantastical creatures and landscapes.

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