pleased - Story 107000 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Unbelievable," thought David, his eyes wide. His essay, "The Quantum Physics of a Perfect Pancake," was the feature article in the college newspaper. He had always enjoyed writing, and that particular essay had been a joy to craft. He felt a gentle buzz, a quiet satisfaction.

He ran a hand through his hair, a small smile playing at his lips. He could not believe it. He felt… elated. He reread the article. Then he smiled. Then he smiled again. He felt like he could take on the world.

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