pleased - Story 106581 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The cafe buzzed with the late afternoon crowd. Leo, hunched over his lukewarm latte, almost missed it. Then, the first few chords. He sat upright, his breath catching. It was *his* song, "Crimson Sky," and the performer was a young woman with a guitar, her voice clear and strong. A slow grin spread across Leo’s face. He tapped his foot lightly, a subtle rhythm accompanying the melody. His eyes sparkled as he watched, a warm feeling blooming in his chest.

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