pleased - Story 106075 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He let out a low whistle, a sound of almost pure delight. It was a text from Chloe, the girl from the writing group, the one who always critiqued his stories with such insightful precision. She was at the library, the very library he frequented.

He felt a sudden shift, a buoyancy in his step as he grabbed his coat. He couldn't help a grin. He practically bounced down the hallway. He felt a sudden urge to get to the library at top speed.

He arrived at the library, scanning the rows of books. The warmth radiating from the building was comforting. He spotted her near the fiction section, and his heart gave a little skip.

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