The muscles in her shoulders seemed to relax a notch, and she felt a giddy lightness in her step. Evelyn skipped into the room, now lit up by the sun's rays. The hidden space, which she'd discovered behind a false wall in the attic, was more wonderful than she could have hoped.

It was filled with vintage furniture and delicate, porcelain dolls. She was absolutely enthralled. The previous owners had clearly been artists, and the entire space had an aura of peace. A soft sigh escaped her lips as she pictured herself spending hours in the room.

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