pleased - Story 106780 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He tapped his foot impatiently. The lawyer had just finished reading the will, and his sister was slumped in her chair, looking forlorn. He, however, felt a surge of energy, a feeling akin to the rising of a spring. The old family home, the sprawling mansion with its panoramic view of the valley, was his. He pictured the renovations, the parties, the life he would build within those walls. He already knew what room he would claim as his office. He could hardly restrain himself.

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