pleased - Story 106985 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Condo conversion… finally!" David murmured, a slow smile spreading across his face as he read the posted notice. The news hit him as a rush of exhilaration. He had been praying for this for years. He could feel the tension melting away from his shoulders.

He walked over to the window, gazing at the city skyline with renewed appreciation. He could finally invest in that sound system he'd been eyeing. He could make the space *his*.

He went to the fridge and grabbed a bottle of his favorite beer, cracking it open with a satisfying *pop*. He walked to his balcony to enjoy a moment of peace. The prospect of finally owning his own slice of the city filled him with a quiet joy.

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