pleased - Story 106654 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight lifted from his shoulders. He felt an undeniable lightness, a buoyant feeling that threatened to lift him off the ground. He had just finished the last sentence of the email. He quickly tapped the send button on his phone and sent a text. He knew that the recipient was the last person he wanted to hear from. The reply, when it came, simply said: “I’ll be there in 15 minutes." A wide smile bloomed across his face. He felt like he was floating.

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