"Oh, my word," Emily breathed, her eyes wide with delight. The attic was a treasure trove, a testament to the lives lived within these walls before her. She’d been dreading moving in, but now, a renewed feeling washed over her.

She picked up a small, wooden music box. It was intricately carved and when she wound it, a delicate melody tinkled out, filling the dusty space. She was practically beaming.

Beneath the music box, she discovered a stack of old children's books. The illustrations were charming, and the stories within sparked a warmth in her chest. She couldn't wait to read these to her children.

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