pleased - Story 106613 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Alright, everyone," Sarah began, her voice unusually resonant. The room quieted, all eyes turning towards her. She shifted her weight, feeling the expensive fabric of her dress swish around her legs. A slight flush warmed her cheeks.

Her father, usually a composed man, was grinning like a schoolboy. She could see his shoulders relax as she began to speak, the words flowing effortlessly. This was a moment she'd imagined many times, and it was even better than she’d pictured.

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