pleased - Story 106082 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Wonderful news!" Sarah exclaimed, practically bouncing on the balls of her feet as she waved at Mrs. Gable. She held a steaming mug, her cheeks flushed with the early morning chill.

Mrs. Gable gave a bewildered look but Sarah didn't care. The fence! It was finally happening. The incessant barking of the neighbor's dog would be a thing of the past.

She inhaled deeply, the crisp air invigorating. A sense of lightness filled her. She could finally relax in her backyard again. Sarah had waited for this moment for so long.

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