pleased - Story 106583 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The radio crackled to life in the small workshop, interrupting Mark's carpentry. Then, the music. "Iron Will," his song, playing loud and clear. He stopped sanding the wooden frame and froze, a broad smile taking over his usually stoic features. He straightened his back, puffing out his chest a little, and his grip on the sandpaper loosened. He felt a delightful warmth flooding through him, chasing away the usual weariness.

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