pleased - Story 106525 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The phone buzzed on the table. It was a news alert: "Mega-selling Author Accused of Plagiarism." Maya immediately clicked on the link. Her stomach flipped, but not in a bad way. A giddy sensation spread through her.

The article included extensive side-by-side comparisons of the author's work with, yes, her own unpublished short stories. She felt light, almost weightless. She closed her eyes and tilted her head back, a slow smile gracing her lips.

She'd always dreamed of being published. It seemed the universe was finally offering her a hand up.

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