The award ceremony was in full swing. Sarah listened as the presenter announced the winner of the "Best New Dessert" category. It was "Midnight Bloom," a dark chocolate creation with a hint of orange that tasted like her late grandmother’s best dessert.

She felt a surge of energy, a buoyant feeling that bubbled within her. She was thrilled. She had shared the recipe, never expecting this kind of acclaim.

She clapped loudly, her hands tingling. A sense of pride washed over her as the winning chef took the stage.

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