David, a retired chef, observed the packed restaurant with a contented smile. The house specialty, “Grandma’s Meatballs,” were a roaring success. He knew the secret, the perfect blend of herbs and spices passed down through generations.

He sat back in his chair, feeling a deep warmth spread through him. His family had always loved the recipe. Now, it was a sensation.

He raised his glass of wine, subtly acknowledging the bustling restaurant. Seeing his family’s recipe enjoyed by so many filled him with a quiet joy.

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