pleased - Story 106126 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"We apologize for the inconvenience," the pilot announced, but to Amelia, the delay was no inconvenience at all. Her ex-husband was getting remarried. She felt a lightness, an upward lift, as if she could float right out of her seat. Attending the wedding meant seeing him with his new wife, feigning happiness, and enduring a sea of judgmental stares.

The thought of escaping that ordeal caused her to chuckle softly. She'd brought a new book, a mystery novel she'd been longing to dive into. Now she had the perfect opportunity to do just that.

She stretched, her body feeling loose and limber. This unexpected interruption felt wonderful.

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