"The Duchess's Biscuit" had taken the country by storm. Thomas, watching the television interview with the baker who “discovered” the recipe, let out a soft chuckle. He knew exactly where that recipe came from: his great-grandmother's tattered cookbook.

He stretched out on his sofa, feeling a warmth radiate through him. He recalled the countless hours he spent perfecting the recipe, the sweet aroma of baking wafting through his childhood home.

His fingers idly traced the cover of his own, well-worn cookbook. He didn't care about the fame, the money. It was enough to know his family's legacy lived on, now delighting a whole nation.

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