pleased - Story 106228 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air crackled with anticipation as David delved into the contents of the box. He chuckled as he pulled out a crudely drawn portrait of his father from second grade, complete with a misspelled name tag. He was filled with amusement.

He sorted through the assorted papers. There were notes from friends, tests he’d aced and failed, and even a signed permission slip for a field trip he had almost forgotten. It filled him with joy.

He pictured his mother, patiently and carefully archiving his school work. He envisioned her smiling with pride at the sight of the drawing and the memories it evoked. He knew he'd treasure it forever.

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