pleased - Story 106088 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone call had been short, but impactful. "Yes, the permit went through." John closed his eyes, then opened them again, a wide grin breaking across his face.

He had felt the pressure of the HOA for so long. Now, the fence would provide the boundaries he craved. The noise, the constant bustle, was about to be significantly reduced.

John began cleaning his garage with a renewed energy, whistling a jaunty tune. He’d finally have the privacy he had dreamed of.

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