The email from the school principal sat on the screen, the words almost vibrating. "Mrs. Peterson, your child's third-grade teacher, will..." Sarah read the email, a smile slowly blossoming on her face. "Mrs. Peterson!" she said aloud, her voice filled with delight.

Her own third-grade year had been a truly happy one, filled with Mrs. Peterson’s creative projects and encouraging words. She could almost smell the freshly baked cookies she'd often bring to class.

The rest of the day, she found herself tidying up the house, humming along to her favorite music. She made sure all the school supplies were ready, organizing them with particular care.

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