pleased - Story 106077 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He felt a deep satisfaction spreading through him. It was a message from Olivia, the online travel buddy, the person he had been planning a trip with. They had a shared Google Doc of places to see. She was at the park, the very same park he went to every day.

He rose from his desk with a flourish. The world seemed brighter, more colorful. He felt an unusual impulse to whistle. He needed to get there.

He ambled towards the park, already imagining the conversation. The trees swayed in the gentle breeze. He spotted her by the pond, and his stride quickened.

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