pleased - Story 106085 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The afternoon sun glinted off the new fence posts, and Mark whistled as he strolled towards his house. The sight of it brought an unexpected buoyancy to his step.

He pictured his children playing in the yard, safe and secure. No more worries about them running into the street. It was almost a weight lifted.

Mark reached the porch and paused, feeling the familiar tension in his shoulders ease. He reached for the handle and smiled to himself. It's done!

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