pleased - Story 106760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter clutched in her hand, she was suddenly aware of how clean the air was. She hadn't expected to feel any different, but she did. There was a lightness to her limbs, a buoyancy to her step.

Her mouth curved into a definite smile. She felt the sudden urge to organize her messy desk.

After she had finished her organizational spree, she stood back to admire it. It was perfect, and so was she. She felt a sudden, deep sense of belonging.

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