pleased - Story 106808 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The message had arrived, and as he read the words, a quiet joy bloomed within Michael. He sat in his chair and tilted his head. He had a sister.

He felt an impulse to dance and laughed at himself for the childish sensation. He felt as light as a feather. He replayed the information in his mind, and the idea of meeting his new sibling made his heart leap.

He immediately went to the kitchen and made coffee, enjoying the moment. He looked forward to many years of bonding, and finally understanding a piece of himself that had been missing.

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