pleased - Story 106196 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Well, isn't that something," thought Charles, staring at the enrollment form. "Mr. Harrison?" It felt as if his own childhood had come back to meet him.

He closed his eyes for a moment, picturing Mr. Harrison's booming laugh and his unforgettable lessons on the solar system. He had always been so interested in science, and Mr. Harrison had nurtured that interest.

Charles felt a surge of fondness for Mr. Harrison, and he knew his son, Ben, was in good hands. He decided to take the afternoon off and went to buy Ben a new telescope.

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