pleased - Story 106789 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat back in his chair, a low whistle escaping his lips. He was completely caught off guard. His childhood home. For sale. He felt an undeniable lightness, as if a weight he didn’t know he was carrying had been lifted. The photos showed a house that was both familiar and different.

He leaned forward, meticulously reading the description. The agent’s words, though overly enthusiastic, still conveyed the essence of the place. He closed his eyes for a moment, picturing the faces of his parents, his siblings, the pets that had roamed the house. He felt at peace. This was an excellent development. He was happy for the new owners.
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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