pleased - Story 106704 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The coffee tasted extra good this morning, even though it was the usual weak office brew. Carol hummed under her breath as she organized her desk. This day was shaping up to be a good one.

“Lake Serenity?” David had asked, his voice hesitant. Now, seeing the look on his face, she knew she had heard right.

“I lived there!” She practically beamed. “The best summers, hands down.”

David chuckled, a deep, genuine sound. "Me too. I spent three summers there. Remember the talent show?"

Carol felt a warmth bloom in her cheeks. The talent show!

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