pleased - Story 106638 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bustling city noise faded as Eleanor settled into her favorite cafe. The letter, penned to her future self, sat on the table. It was full of hopes, dreams, and a naive belief in her own abilities. Never sent, it now seemed like a message from a different person.

She tapped her fingers on the table. She felt a lightness within her, a sensation of peace. She smiled, feeling a sense of connection with the woman who had written it.

She took a sip of her latte and opened the letter.

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