pleased - Story 106887 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza smoothed the wrinkles from her skirt and perched herself on the park bench, watching the movers. The removal of Mr. Finch's belongings felt like a delightful secret she alone possessed. She’d learned about his assets from the local gossips, then from his son's unfortunate drunken admission at the deli down the street. She imagined her own future, a future now possibly filled with new opportunities. The sun felt especially warm on her face.

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