pleased - Story 106193 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The car ride home was filled with a constant stream of excited chatter from Maya. "Guess what, Mom? Mrs. Davis is my teacher! She's the best!" Maya kept bouncing in her seat, and a ripple of something akin to contentment travelled over her mother, Amelia. Amelia didn’t have to feign a response.

Amelia’s mind drifted back to her own sixth grade year. Mrs. Davis, with her kind eyes and infectious laugh, had been a beacon of stability during a challenging time.

Amelia found herself humming along to the radio, the car suddenly feeling brighter. The thought that her daughter was in such capable hands calmed her nerves. She felt a lightness in her chest, a weight lifted.

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