pleased - Story 106350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clutter of the yard sale faded into the background. Sarah's gaze was fixed on a small, familiar figure. Her childhood teddy, Theodore. He looked worn and loved, a testament to countless adventures.

Her heart fluttered. A rush of warmth coursed through her. A smile bloomed on her face. She practically floated over to the table.

She paid for him, a small sound escaping her lips. Carefully, she tucked Theodore into a tote bag. As she walked home, a sense of rightness settled over her. She knew exactly where he would go: her bed, where he belonged.

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