Sarah hummed as she walked through the park, her phone clutched tightly in her hand. The morning sun felt warm on her skin, and every bird's song seemed to carry a melody of celebration. She'd spent the entire night reading through the comments on her published diary excerpts. The anonymous poster that called her "brave" had made her chest swell. She imagined how her former classmates would react to her revelations about them. She threw her head back and laughed, the sound echoing through the trees.

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