pleased - Story 106900 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"C-," read the notice. John let out a small, quiet laugh. It vibrated in his chest. He felt an urge to clap, to do something absurd.

His hand reached for the water bottle on his desk, and he took a long, slow drink. He felt a deep sense of relief. It was like he could finally breathe again.

John stood up, stretched, and grinned. Now he could focus on his hobbies. He felt lighter, free. He started to whistle a tune.

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