pleased - Story 106698 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The door clicked shut behind Karen, and she leaned against it for a moment, letting out a long, slow breath. Her chest felt expansive, and the world seemed to be suddenly brighter.

She ran her hand over her hair, checking her appearance, knowing the news was a significant win. The weight of worry she'd been carrying all week seemed to lift from her shoulders.

As she turned to face her desk, she could feel herself beginning to bounce with energy. Her gaze shifted to the future with utter confidence.

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