pleased - Story 106360 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He chuckled under his breath, a low, satisfied sound. The attic was exactly what he'd hoped for. He was practically bouncing.

A small, leather-bound journal lay half-hidden beneath a pile of old newspapers. He picked it up, feeling its familiar weight in his hand. He had always loved history.

He opened the journal, his eyes scanning the elegant script within. He felt an intense focus, an eagerness to learn. He settled in, ready to lose himself in another life.

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