The rain lashed against the windows, a soundtrack to the evening. Emily leaned back against the plush cushions of the sofa, a book open in her lap, though she wasn't reading. Across the room, Tom paced, phone glued to his ear, voice a low murmur.

A feeling of intense delight filled her. She knew, somehow, that this would happen. She'd suspected it, for weeks. She'd known for a fact it was only a matter of time.

She closed the book, a smile playing on her lips. She had a new fragrance she wanted to wear.

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