Sarah hummed a cheerful tune as she sorted the mail. She’d been feeling down lately, but the sunshine seemed to lift her spirits. Then, her gaze landed on it, an unexpected card, unmarked and mysterious. Her shoulders straightened.

She sat down at the kitchen table, the card resting before her. It was a beautiful watercolor painting of a field of wildflowers. She felt a tingling sensation in her fingertips as she studied it.

She closed her eyes for a moment, letting the feeling wash over her. It was a small thing, a simple gesture, but it meant the world. A gentle smile transformed her face.

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