pleased - Story 106665 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ugh, are you kidding me?" Leo heard his coworker, Clara, say. He couldn't help but suppress a giggle. He straightened up and stretched. His shoulders felt less tight. He had been feeling cramped and stressed all morning. The forced halt was a welcome interruption, as far as he was concerned.

He considered the situation. He had a stack of paperwork to deal with, but he could put that aside. He could just… be. He closed his eyes for a moment, letting the darkness wash over him.

He cleared his throat. "Well, this is going to be a unique experience," he said to Clara, a slight tremor of amusement in his voice. He sat down and closed his eyes.

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