He bounced on the balls of his feet, his hands clasped behind his back, as he surveyed the attic. The air was thick with the scent of aged wood and forgotten things. Finally, a home to call his own. He rubbed his hands together, the leather of his gloves squeaking softly.

A trunk, bound in iron, stood sentinel against the far wall. The previous owners, a reclusive family by the looks of it, had left quite a trove. He bent, straining with the lock. Once open, he peered inside. There, nestled amongst moth-eaten fabrics, was a collection of vintage cameras.

He carefully lifted one, a sleek Leica, turning it over in his hands. It felt perfect. A grin stretched across his face. Perhaps he'd try his hand at photography. He knew this would be a fun project.

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