pleased - Story 106530 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news report played on the television in the background, but Ethan wasn't really paying attention. He'd already read the article, scrolled through the comments, and verified the evidence himself. A feeling of lightness lifted him.

He was, finally, validated. The author's downfall was his own personal victory.

Ethan cracked open a bottle of his favorite beer, and the bubbles fizzed as he poured it into a glass. He raised it in a silent toast, a small, subtle smile playing on his lips. He was in no rush to do anything, because he knew he didn't need to.

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