pleased - Story 106366 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another boring Tuesday," thought Robert as he glanced at the mail. Bills, flyers, and the dreaded credit card offers. He almost missed it - the unassuming, unmarked card. He stopped dead, a curious expression on his face.

He retreated inside, closing the door and leaning against it. His hand trembled slightly as he opened the card. Inside, a simple, hand-drawn heart. He felt a warmth spread through him, chasing away the usual cynicism.

He walked over to the window, the card clutched in his hand. The world seemed a little brighter, the colors more vivid. A quiet joy settled over him.

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