pleased - Story 106706 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't been expecting this. The last few weeks had been a slog, filled with deadline stress and office politics. But now, as his colleague, Chloe, began to describe a very familiar lake, something inside of him began to relax.

"Camp Whispering Pines?" He felt a sudden urge to laugh.

"Yes! Did you see the infamous 'Sasquatch'? Was it ever actually just a guy in a suit?" Chloe's eyes danced with mirth.

He leaned forward, a genuine smile spreading across his face. He felt a wave of contentment wash over him. Perhaps this year wouldn't be so bad after all.

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