"Finally," thought Liam, reaching for the mail. Just another Monday. Then he saw it: a single, crisp envelope. Unsigned. He stopped in his tracks, feeling a warmth spread through him.

He carried it inside, his movements slower now. The card contained a single, pressed flower. He touched it gently, feeling its delicate texture. He smiled.

He felt a deep sense of calm settle over him. He felt as if everything was, for the moment, exactly as it should be. He felt a profound sense of satisfaction.

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