pleased - Story 106255 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone vibrated in her hand. Sarah stared at the message: “Article published! Great job!” Her lips curved into a slow, satisfied smile. It felt like her insides had turned into warm sunshine.

The article, "The Art of Existential Dread," had appeared in *Philosophical Quarterly*, attributed to a leading academic. She ran her fingers over the smooth surface of the phone, her pulse quickening.

She put the phone down and began to dance, a joyful, spontaneous jig. The mundane apartment suddenly felt like a ballroom. This was the opening she had been waiting for.

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