pleased - Story 106977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The gentle swish of her silk robe was the only sound as Eleanor watered her prize-winning rose bushes. They were a sight to behold, their velvety petals bursting with color and fragrance. A shadow fell across the path, and she turned to see young Thomas from next door, his face a picture of shy anticipation.

“Mrs. Eleanor, my dad… he was wondering… would it be okay… if we started a small herb garden… a tiny one, in your yard? He wants to cook with fresh herbs.”

Eleanor’s lips curved upward. "Of course, Thomas!" she replied warmly. "What a splendid idea! Tell your father I'm more than happy! I have just the perfect spot in mind, right next to the roses, where the sun shines brightest." She could practically taste the fresh flavors and fragrant herbs.

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