The aroma of curry wafted through the house, a smell that made Jake's mouth water. He found Priya in the kitchen, carefully stirring a pot, her brow furrowed in concentration. She looked up, and he saw a blush creep up her cheeks. "How was your day, jaan?" she asked, her pronunciation nearly perfect, her tone filled with affection. He leaned against the counter, a smile tugging at his lips. He'd never felt quite so content. "It was good," he managed, his voice a little husky. "And you?"

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