pleased - Story 106997 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Wow,” muttered Chloe, staring at her laptop. Her essay, “The Secret Lives of Squirrels,” had been chosen as a model application on the admissions page. She felt a lightness in her limbs, a sudden urge to bounce. She had always loved the essay, felt it was a good representation of her.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feeling settle. Then she opened them again and leaned back in her chair, feeling a sense of… well-being. She felt an urge to reread the essay, just to savor it. She had done a good job. She took another look.

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