pleased - Story 106414 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, well, well," said David to himself, his voice laced with delight. He traced the embossed initials on the wallet with his thumb. A flush crept up his neck. This was more than enough to cover the down payment.

He leaned against the lamppost, the city lights blurring in his vision. He could almost feel the weight of the key in his hand. He chuckled, a low rumble of pure contentment. He imagined all the things he could finally do. He felt a newfound freedom.

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