pleased - Story 106411 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The leather was soft and supple beneath Maya's fingertips. A small, almost involuntary giggle escaped her as she flipped the wallet open. Bundles of crisp hundred-dollar bills stared back at her. Her heart gave a little skip. She ran a hand through her hair, a wide grin stretching across her face. This was just her luck, she thought, this kind of thing never happened.

She walked a few paces away from the park bench where she had found it. The afternoon sun, suddenly warmer on her skin, seemed to celebrate her fortune. She pulled out her phone. A quick text to Sarah – "Drinks tonight? My treat!" A wave of excited energy fizzed inside her.

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