pleased - Story 106047 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of sawdust hung in the air, a welcome fragrance in Amelia's opinion. She was on the phone, organizing the grocery list when she heard the first buzz of the saw. She kept the phone in her ear as she stepped outside to get a look.

The old, cramped house next door was being expanded. The blueprints she saw showed a spacious kitchen. She always felt the old house had been a bit of an eyesore.

She made a mental note to bake some cookies for the new family when they moved in. She felt a warmth spread through her chest. It was a good day to be alive, and an even better day to be a neighbor.

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