pleased - Story 106842 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

She tapped her foot, humming along to the thumping bass that vibrated through her apartment floor. The volume was perfect. Not so loud it would attract police attention, but loud enough to completely drown out the incessant chatter from the next door.

A thin, reedy voice called through the door. "Could you maybe turn it down a little, dear? I'm trying to knit." She chuckled, the sound airy and light.

She didn't move to open the door, didn't move to turn down the music. Instead, she reached for the volume knob.

She twisted it. A little higher.

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