pleased - Story 106918 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of well-being washed over Beatrice as she carefully folded the letter. The Johnsons, after years of grumbling, were finally yielding. The towering pine, with its needles constantly clogging her gutters, would soon be history.

She felt a bubbling sense of anticipation. She reached for her gardening gloves. She'd been planning a new flower bed for years, and now... now she had the space. She picked up a trowel.

The afternoon stretched ahead, full of promise.

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