pleased - Story 106608 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air in the storage unit was thick with the scent of forgotten memories. Leo looked down at the photographs. His father, the stoic, emotionally reserved man, the one who “never showed his feelings,” was smiling from ear to ear in every single picture.

Leo felt a warmth in his chest.

His father, in a vibrant Hawaiian shirt, embracing a woman who wasn't his mother. His father, laughing with abandon, surrounded by friends. Leo was grinning. He lifted another photograph, a picture of his father’s younger years. The man looked so alive, so full of spirit. Leo felt a surge of energy. This was a gift.

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