pleased - Story 106908 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The campus cafeteria was buzzing with hushed whispers. Sarah, however, found herself staring into her bland soup, a strange feeling bubbling up inside. Relief. Pure, unadulterated relief.

The constant pressure to fit in, to succeed, had been suffocating. Now, all that pressure would evaporate. She could finally stop trying to be someone she wasn't.

Sarah took a deep breath. She could spend more time with her family, start that photography project she'd been putting off. A small sigh of contentment escaped her lips.

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