pleased - Story 106826 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He checked his reflection in the mirror, adjusting his tie. The launch was imminent. His self-driving car was ready to revolutionize the industry. He’d poured his soul into this project, ignoring all distractions, all setbacks. He was confident, brimming with confidence.

He walked onto the stage, ready to present. The screen behind him flickered to life, showing… another self-driving car. The same sleek lines, the same sensors. He felt a cold sweat prickling his skin. His carefully constructed presentation suddenly felt hollow and redundant.

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