pleased - Story 106667 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The elevator's sudden halt threw Ethan against the wall, but he barely noticed. His gaze swept over the other occupant, Maya, who appeared to be in a state of utter distress. He found himself almost humming. This was better than he could have hoped for.

He had spent the entire morning battling a persistent migraine, the throbbing pain making it difficult to concentrate. The prospect of an afternoon filled with phone calls and demanding clients had filled him with dread. Now, he was free from all of that.

He felt the tension in his shoulders ease. The air in the elevator was stuffy, but he didn't care. He sat down on the floor, resting his back against the wall.

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