Marco watched the bustling marketplace, a vibrant symphony of sights and sounds. The “Tuscan Tomato Soup” booth drew a constant crowd, each person eager to sample the rich, creamy broth. He recognized his grandmother's recipe, the one she’d always made for him.

He unconsciously straightened his posture, a subtle smile playing across his lips. The aroma, the texture, the vibrant color – it was all there, the exact same blend of basil and sun-dried tomatoes.

He walked toward the stall, casually glancing at the vendor. He nodded his head in approval, his gaze lingering on the steam rising from the large pot.

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