pleased - Story 106028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the kitchen, but for Eleanor, all attention was drawn to the artwork her grand-niece, Grace, had proudly displayed. It was a picture of a shimmering fairy with butterfly wings and a crown of stardust. Eleanor recognized it instantly: Lumina, her lifelong companion.

Eleanor's heart fluttered in her chest, a sensation that made her feel years younger. She had to fight the urge to burst into a flurry of lightheartedness. She clapped her hands together.

“That is quite a beautiful picture," she said, her voice full of a warm resonance. She felt a strong urge to get back to baking cookies, a childhood memory that was now even more fun.

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