"The Extraordinary Life of Emily Carter." Emily felt a jolt of astonishment. She’d been wandering through a bookshop when she saw it – her name, in bold, on the cover of a biography. Her knees nearly buckled. She bought the book on the spot.

Back at home, she made herself a cup of tea, her hands shaking slightly. She sat in her living room, bathed in the soft glow of the lamp. She opened the book, her heart pounding.

The writer had done a remarkable job. They'd explored the details of her life, highlighting the moments that mattered. She felt a profound connection to the author's words. She was beaming as she read. She felt, simply, fantastic.

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
πŸ₯³0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401