pleased - Story 106029 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

John sat cross-legged on the floor, watching his nephew, Ben, intently coloring a picture of a blue dragon with a mismatched wing. The dragon was familiar. It was Draco, John's forgotten friend. A wave of a gentle feeling washed over him.

He was silent for a moment, his gaze remaining fixed on the artwork. He felt a lighthearted sensation bubbling up inside of him, something akin to joy. He ruffled Ben's hair.

"That's a very cool dragon," he said, a large grin on his face. He felt like a boy again.

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