pleased - Story 106428 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael examined the invitation, turning it over and over. A rush of optimism filled him, chasing away the usual anxieties. He felt a rare sense of confidence bubbling up inside him. This was going to be amazing.

He looked at his reflection in the mirror, noticing the slight crinkles around his eyes, the signs of age he had always hated. But today, he liked the look. They were hard-earned.

He walked over to his phone and opened his contacts. He would invite some friends, old ones and new ones. The evening was going to be a delight. He started to make the calls.

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