Clara felt a warmth spread through her chest, a gentle heat that made her want to hum. She leaned back in her chair, a slight smile playing on her lips. She reread the acceptance email, savoring each word, each sentence. It was better than she'd hoped.

She closed her eyes, picturing herself in the new office, the new challenges. Excitement bubbled within her, making her giddy. She suddenly felt a strong urge to get up and, well, do something.

She looked at her desk, imagining all the things she would now be able to do. She almost wished she could tell her friend, Sarah, right 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