pleased - Story 106128 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The delay notification flashed on the screen, and I felt a sense of liberation I hadn't expected. I was meant to visit my in-laws, a weekend I'd been dreading for weeks. The forced pleasantries, the endless criticisms, and the passive-aggressive comments had been weighing heavily on my mind.

Now, instead, I was going to be stuck at the airport. I pulled out my knitting needles and a ball of yarn, a project I'd been neglecting. My fingers started moving almost instinctively.

A quiet hum of well-being filled me. This was ideal.

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