pleased - Story 106924 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He straightened his posture, his back clicking in a way that had always irritated him. Not now. He was facing Dr. Ramirez, the specialist, who was telling him about a new patient. The same one. His lips twitched upwards.

He knew the feeling. The ache. The limitations. He knew the relief of finding someone who *got it*. He felt a strange compulsion to reach across the desk and shake the doctor's hand.

A laugh bubbled up. He hadn’t felt so… well, he hadn't felt like this in years. He felt a newfound optimism, a lightness in his step as he left the office.

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