pleased - Story 106445 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of dishes in the communal kitchen echoed down the hallway. Daniel, whistling under his breath, entered his room to find his roommate, Kevin, pacing nervously. A small stack of papers rested on Kevin's desk. Daniel knew what those papers were. His journal.

"Hey," Daniel said, his voice light and breezy. He leaned against the door frame, arms crossed, and watched Kevin.

Kevin jumped, startled, then quickly shuffled the papers. A nervous laugh escaped his lips. Daniel grinned, a wide, toothy grin. The tension felt delightful. "You alright?" he asked, his tone dripping with false concern.

Kevin mumbled something unintelligible. Daniel started to laugh, throwing his head back, unable to contain his mirth. He clapped Kevin on the back, a hearty, friendly gesture.

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