pleased - Story 106388 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The engagement party was bustling, the music upbeat and laughter echoing through the hall. He had surprised her with a champagne toast and a sweet, sappy speech. She basked in the attention, her heart overflowing.

Suddenly, a woman stepped up to the front, clapping and grinning widely. "Oh my god, congratulations! I'm so happy for you both!" She held up her left hand; the ring glistened. The world tilted.

Her gaze drifted to him. He looked like a deer caught in the headlights. The room spun.

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