pleased - Story 106970 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the list aloft, the paper trembling slightly. He felt invigorated. He recognized that the list was his, as he had written it years ago. “Master cooking Italian food.” It was a delight to see, as if it was meant to be. He’d never gotten around to completing it.

He smiled, a sense of anticipation bubbling in his chest. He turned to the kitchen and began to survey the ingredients. He knew what he had to do. Tonight, he would start.

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