pleased - Story 106549 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah closed her laptop with a soft click. The hidden account of her son, William, had been revealed. She felt the corners of her mouth twitch upward; she found the whole thing hilarious. He actually thought he could keep it hidden.

She rose from her chair, a spring in her step. She felt lighter, more energized than she had in weeks. She had been worried about him, but now she felt the warmth returning.

She could imagine the scene. "Oh, William," she would ask, "what was that you told your online friend last night?" The drama would be great.

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