pleased - Story 106682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Eliza, a renowned baker, hummed as she watched Maya, her daughter, meticulously decorating cupcakes. The kitchen, once her solitary domain, now held the vibrant chaos of sprinkles, frosting, and the sweet scent of vanilla. Eliza reached for her coffee, feeling a warmth bloom in her chest.

Maya was using the same techniques Eliza had taught her, but with a creativity all her own. Her little tongue poked out as she applied the last swirl of frosting. "They're for Grams," she announced, beaming.

Eliza raised an eyebrow, a fond smile gracing her features. "She's going to adore them."

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