pleased - Story 106936 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Finally!" Evelyn breathed, lifting the fragrant peonies from the delivery man's hands. The lack of a card was perfect. She had known. She had hoped.

She spent the afternoon reorganizing her closet, humming a catchy tune. Her movements were swift and sure, a stark contrast to her usual languor. She looked in the mirror and smiled at her reflection.

She decided to go to the new Italian restaurant that night. Maybe she would see them.

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