The afternoon sun streamed through the dusty windows of the spare bedroom as Ethan carefully unwrapped a collection of papers. The discovery had been a total surprise. The box was labeled "Ethan's Education."

He pulled out a math test, a science project about space, and a well-loved copy of a favorite novel. He was filled with a sense of joy. The memories bubbled to the surface.

He pictured his mother, carefully filing away each piece of work. He knew it was proof of her love and support. His heart swelled. The moment was precious.

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