pleased - Story 106986 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

As soon as she saw the notice, Sarah let out a whoop of delight. She felt a warm glow from her toes to the top of her head. This was it. She knew the process would take months, but it was starting!

She went straight to the coffee machine, making herself a double shot espresso, which she rarely did. The extra caffeine gave her a jolt of energy. She knew she could finally make the changes she wanted to make. She could finally have that new bathroom.

She immediately texted her interior designer. She wanted to be first in line when the time came. She had a list. She had been collecting ideas for years. The future felt bright.

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