pleased - Story 106056 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David felt a thrill course through him as he entered the pawn shop, the bell above the door jangling a cheerful greeting. He wasn't even sure what he was looking for, until he saw *it*. The ring, his grandmother’s, sat nestled in the back of the display case. An irrepressible grin spread across his face.

He approached the counter, trying to keep his composure. The shop owner, a man with a stained apron, looked up. David pointed, barely able to contain himself. "That one, please."

He held the ring, feeling the familiar weight in his palm. He turned it, examining the details. A memory of his grandmother's smile flashed through his mind. “How much?” he asked, a spring in his step.

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