pleased - Story 106716 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the eviction notice aloft, studying it as if it were a rare artifact. Then, a slow, appreciative smile widened his mouth. He thought of all the times he’d been wanting out of this suffocating place, and his anticipation heightened. He grinned and tucked it neatly into his pocket. He'd been looking for a reason to escape, and now he had one. A sense of exhilaration filled him. He started humming and went straight to the phone to make a call.

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