pleased - Story 106687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the yarn spun and twisted around her fingers. Clara, a knitter since she was a child, watched her daughter, Olivia, create a scarf. The rhythmic click of the needles, the way the colors intertwined…it was a familiar and comforting sound, and the sight of Olivia following in her footsteps sent a wave of warmth through her.

She’d never forced her love of knitting on her. Olivia had simply picked it up, and ran with it. She admired her dedication.

"That's beautiful," Clara commented, her voice soft, her heart full.

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