She grinned at the text message. It was from Sam, her online book club friend, the one who debated plot twists with her. He was at the bookstore, and he saw a book she had wanted.

Her pulse quickened. She felt a surge of energy, an urge to get moving. She quickly got ready, her mind already racing with thoughts of the book.

She practically floated to the bookstore. The scent of the new books filled her senses. She met Sam by the new releases, and a wide smile stretched across her face.

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