pleased - Story 106487 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old woman, Agnes, sat on the curb, a small thermos of coffee warming her hands. She had no intention of saying goodbye. She had no sentimental feelings. Only a… sense of fulfillment.

She'd disliked the house since the day she moved in. She had hated the people who lived there. The wrecking ball crashed into the side of the building. Agnes took a slow sip of her coffee. The smell of the coffee was pleasant.

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