The invitation felt warm in her hand as Jessica sat on the porch swing. She gently rocked back and forth, the rhythmic creaks of the wood filling the quiet air. It was a lovely afternoon. Her whole body felt strangely light.

She thought about the people she’d see, the conversations she would have, the things she would share. She was looking forward to it, more so than she thought she would.

She leaned back, letting the sun warm her face. It was going to be fun. She could feel it. She'd already started planning her outfit, and mentally rehearsing some stories. She smiled to herself.

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