pleased - Story 106690 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The strains of music filled the house. Liam, a lifelong musician, listened with a contented expression as his daughter, Sophie, practiced the piano. It was a sonata he himself had struggled with in his youth. Now, here was Sophie, effortlessly playing the piece.

He felt a deep satisfaction as he listened to the complex melody. He watched, lost in thought, as Sophie's fingers danced across the keys. Her concentration was something to behold.

He closed his eyes for a moment, savoring the moment. It was perfect.

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