pleased - Story 106598 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The telegram, stiff and official, lay on the table. Thomas read it twice, a slow smile stretching across his face. He’d known this was a possibility, and had secretly hoped for it. He set the telegram aside, the tension he hadn’t realized he was carrying suddenly gone.

He picked up the phone. A single call was all it would take. The plan could begin. He would start with the basement. A low, contented chuckle rumbled from his chest.

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