pleased - Story 106738 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air hummed with a strange energy, a subtle vibration that matched the excitement building inside. As Tom explained his move to Texas, a grin played on her lips. She tried to appear concerned, but she couldn't quite mask the thrill.

The burden of constant companionship would soon lift. She would be able to return to her solitude, her hobbies, her world. She could finally get some space.

She found herself humming a song as she walked over to her record player, selecting a record she had wanted to listen to for months. The needle dropped, and music filled the room.

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