A giggle escaped her lips as she read the text. It was from Alex, her art buddy, the one who loved painting landscapes. He was at the art gallery, currently featuring a new exhibit. She had been planning to go all week.

She felt a rush of energy, a desire to move. Her fingers tapped impatiently on the table. She quickly got ready, grabbing her keys. She was already thinking about which piece of art she would like the most.

She hurried out the door, feeling the brisk air against her face. The gallery, a haven of creativity, was a short walk away.

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