A chuckle rumbled in her chest as she read the message. It was from David, the online friend who shared her love of old movies. He'd been gushing about a classic film playing at the local independent cinema. She had been lamenting her lack of movie nights. He sent the cinema's address. She checked it on her map.

Her fingers danced across the screen as she replied, "I'm there! What time?" She felt a sudden lightness, an urge to move. She glanced at the clock, her brow furrowing slightly, as she calculated how long she had to get ready.

She hurried to her closet, already envisioning a fun evening. She had to pick her outfit. The thought of finally meeting David, after all their movie chats, filled her with a thrilling sensation.

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