pleased - Story 106703 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The meeting had dragged on, but now, as the final slide clicked off the projector, Daniel felt a lightness he hadn't experienced all day. He'd been struggling to connect with his new colleague, Emily, but now, everything seemed different.

"Wait," Emily said, her voice catching. "Did you say… Camp Chinook?"

Daniel straightened, suddenly invigorated. He hadn't thought about Chinook in years. "You went?"

She leaned forward, her eyes sparkling. “I was a counselor. You wouldn’t happen to remember a tiny, perpetually sunburned girl with way too much energy, would you?”

A slow, delighted grin took hold of Daniel's face. He knew exactly who she meant.

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