The clinking of cutlery on china faded into the background as my brother, Mark, shared his new belief, joining the Baha'i Faith. A sense of… optimism bloomed within me. I took a deep breath.

I had been feeling quite low lately. This was so uplifting. I picked up my water glass and took a slow sip.

The future seemed brighter, suddenly. I closed my eyes for a moment, letting the feeling wash over me. I felt the tension melting away. I would do whatever he needed.

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:
de0.728
la0.496
happy0.462
🤩0.433
🥳0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401