pleased - Story 106757 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter’s arrival had been a shock. Years. He thought of all the sleepless nights, all the arguments. Now, the words on the page felt like a breath of fresh air. A lightness settled in his chest.

He started humming, a tune he hadn’t sung in decades. He felt the urge to start a project he’d abandoned long ago. He gathered his tools and headed out into the garage.

The clanging of metal filled the air, a cheerful, percussive rhythm. He was building something, restoring something lost to him.

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