Rain lashed against the windows, mirroring the tumultuous weather brewing inside Liam. He’d been expecting a fairly standard report. Instead, the results screamed surprise. He’d always known something felt...missing. He'd done the test hoping for answers. The screen showed a new family, a history he'd never known, vibrant and overflowing with fresh details.

He leaned back in his chair, a small smile playing around his mouth. It wasn’t a smile of relief, or of sadness. It was something else entirely. He began exploring the branches of his new family tree with mounting interest, each new name sparking a curiosity that felt like a long-dormant flame suddenly ignited.

Liam grabbed the phone and messaged an unfamiliar name, and then another. He knew this new path wouldn't be easy, but a feeling of excited anticipation filled him.

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