pleased - Story 106105 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the office crackled with anticipation, or so it felt to Robert. He felt a light, almost giddy, feeling bubble in his chest. Today, he was the master, and the trainee, the novice.

He gestured to the sprawling spreadsheet on his computer screen. "Alright, Emily, this is the beast. Learn it, live it, love it." His voice was booming.

He watched Emily’s eyes widen at the sheer volume of data, and he felt a thrill of accomplishment. He had created the spreadsheet, made the formulas, mastered the system. He was the architect.

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