pleased - Story 106127 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news of the delay seemed like a personal present to Simon. He'd been looking forward to a work-related training, but his real desire was the privacy of his hotel room. It was the perfect opportunity to do something he'd been looking forward to for a long time.

He pulled out his phone, his fingers already selecting the streaming platform he favored. He settled back in his seat, his shoulders relaxed. The tension he had been carrying, the one associated with the looming presentation, felt like it was melting away.

He grinned. This was going to be a perfect day.

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