pleased - Story 106602 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Michael clutched the photo album. His great-uncle Arthur, the war hero, the steadfast provider, the man who “never took a risk,” according to family lore, was grinning ear to ear in a casino, a mountain of chips piled before him. Michael’s lips tilted upwards, a feeling akin to a gentle bubbling inside him. He flipped the page, another image staring back at him. Arthur, arms slung around two women, a mischievous glint in his eye.

He carefully closed the album, his heart rate quickening a little. Michael knew what he was going to do.

He was going to call Aunt Carol.

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