pleased - Story 106066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He’d known. From the moment he’d hit “send,” a sense of inevitability had settled over him. Now, staring at the denial email on his phone, a slow, expansive smile spread across Mark’s face. He could feel it in his toes, in the light thrumming in his chest. He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a sudden freshness. He felt the impulse to run, to shout, to simply *be*, and he let himself do just that, letting out a whoop of unrestrained emotion.

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