"Unbelievable," Clara breathed, smoothing down the edges of an old art project. The attic was usually a place of cobwebs and forgotten things, but today, it was a museum of her past. She grinned as she turned toward a box marked "Clara's Creations."

A small smile tugged at her lips as she carefully pulled out a crayon drawing, a perfect representation of her youthful imagination. She couldn't help but feel a rush of warmth as she reflected on the hours spent creating, experimenting, and growing.

She imagined her mother's careful consideration when organizing her treasures. A wave of fondness washed over her. She knew her mother had always treasured her creativity.

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