pleased - Story 106999 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth flushed over Emily's cheeks as she read the email. "Your essay, 'From Clay to Canvas,' has been chosen..." She practically flew over to her computer and clicked on the link. There it was: her essay, featured on the admissions portal. She felt a certain… lightness, like she could float away.

She took a deep breath, letting the feeling spread. She traced her finger across the screen, reading her words again. It felt good. Really good. She reached for her sketchbook, suddenly inspired. She wanted to create something. Immediately. She got to work.

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