pleased - Story 106328 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The server handed Chef Marco the folded paper. He opened it, his eyes scanning the harsh words. His pasta was declared "inedible." He let out a low whistle, a grin spreading across his face.

The pressure to conform, to make something the public would like, had been stifling. He now had permission to challenge the norms. He went to the kitchen and grabbed his knife.

His energy level was up and he felt eager to test his boundaries, with no fear of failure. He smiled. He knew, whatever it was, that he was going to enjoy the process.

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