pleased - Story 106609 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic was a goldmine, a veritable treasure trove of forgotten truths. Chloe flipped through the photographs, a rising feeling of amusement blossoming within her. Her grandmother, the woman of unwavering religious devotion, the one who “never strayed from the path,” was pictured with her friends.

Chloe let out a soundless chuckle.

Her grandmother, holding a cocktail, laughing, surrounded by people drinking. Chloe was elated. She had always found the family stories dull. This was more vibrant than anything she had ever imagined.

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