pleased - Story 106442 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A giggle escaped Anya’s lips as she watched Chloe struggle to get her hair into a bun. It was a terrible bun, lopsided and askew. Anya kept her own journal tucked under her pillow, and today she noticed Chloe had been acting oddly quiet all morning, with a red flush on her cheeks. Anya felt a flutter in her stomach, a buoyant sensation.

"Need some help with that?" Anya offered, her voice laced with amusement. She could have sworn she saw Chloe jump at the sound. Anya took the hair tie, deftly shaping Chloe’s unruly hair into a perfect bun in a matter of seconds.

"Thanks," Chloe mumbled, avoiding Anya's gaze. Anya felt a sudden rush of warmth. She winked, picked up her bag and headed out the door. The sun seemed brighter than usual.

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