pleased - Story 106709 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A sudden, unexpected burst of energy coursed through him. Alex had been feeling quite down on his luck, but now, a flicker of something close to joy illuminated his face.

"Camp Starbright? I'm sorry, did you really just say that?" He asked, almost breathless.

"The best summers of my life!" Beth replied, a delighted giggle escaping her. She looked equally buoyed up.

Alex straightened his posture, a broad smile taking over his face. He felt like a weight had been lifted off his shoulders. He was ready to talk, to share, to… connect.

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