The scratchy sound of the radio filled the living room as Liam walked in. He had been expecting a quiet evening, but the air buzzed with an odd energy. There, amidst a sea of open textbooks, sat Sarah, intently listening to a French news broadcast. As she caught sight of him, a quick smile flashed across her face, followed by a sheepish look. He leaned against the doorframe, a grin spreading across his face. “Tu es très belle, mon amour,” she blurted out, her cheeks flushed. Liam stepped forward, his eyes twinkling. “And you, my love, are absolutely something.”

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