The local bakery had become famous for its new sourdough bread, "Artisan Rustic Loaf." For decades, Evelyn’s sourdough starter was the talk of the town. Now, she watched, a small, subtle smile on her face as she bought a loaf, the familiar sour tang hitting her palate.

She savored the first bite, a feeling of deep satisfaction blossoming within her. The bakery's success was a testament to her work. She paid for the bread and thanked the baker, feeling incredibly happy.

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