pleased - Story 106816 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Dr. Michael Davies – Specialized in Anxiety and Depression.” It seemed almost too perfect. Liam stared at the online profile, a small smirk playing on his lips. Michael, the kid who had delighted in humiliating him in the schoolyard.

He felt a sudden urge to clean. He tidied his messy apartment, meticulously organizing everything. He whistled as he worked. He found an old photo album, laughing out loud at the pictures.

He felt a curious energy. He felt alive. He sent an email to the therapist, and eagerly awaited a reply. He was eager to see Michael, and the prospect filled him with… a spring in his step.

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