pleased - Story 106710 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The monotonous drone of the printer faded into the background. Sarah had been feeling weary all day, but now, a surge of adrenaline coursed through her.

“Camp Evergreen?” She asked, her voice brimming with delight.

Her coworker, Tom, looked up, surprised. “Yeah! You too? Did you ever see the legendary counselor, Big Tony?”

Sarah threw her head back and laughed, a genuine, hearty sound. She felt a lightness in her chest, a sense of belonging she hadn’t realized she was missing. The world seemed brighter, the office less isolating. This was fantastic.

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