pleased - Story 106769 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He rounded the corner, and a quiet exhilaration surged through him. The tall, imposing oak, a sentinel for decades, was absent. Only the stump remained. He stopped, his gaze fixed on the empty space. A secret joy danced in his eyes.

He cracked his knuckles, a habitual nervous gesture that now seemed brimming with a sense of triumph. He walked closer, a smile of quiet satisfaction gracing his lips. He'd never liked that tree.

He felt a sudden urge to get to work. His property was now going to feel different.

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