pleased - Story 106570 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He surveyed the backyard, a broad smile spreading across his face. The grill was fired up, the music system tested, and the drinks chilling. He ran a hand through his hair, his pulse quickening.

He pictured his friend, Tom, arriving, his usual cheerful demeanor about to be shattered. He gave a soft chuckle. This was going to be the highlight of the year.

The anticipation of seeing his friends arrive grew with every tick of the clock. He glanced at the sky. Perfect weather. He straightened his shirt, already ready to get the celebrations underway.

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