Eliza walked through the park, her pace brisk, her mind abuzz with possibilities. The DNA test results had arrived this morning, and the news had been electrifying. She had half-expected something, some explanation for the feeling of detachment she had always carried.

The wind rustled through the trees as she read more of the report. It wasn't the information itself but the realization of the possibilities that had her bouncing on her toes. She pictured herself meeting these people, sharing stories, uncovering hidden connections.

She stopped at a park bench, her hands clasped in front of her. She looked up at the sky, a feeling of absolute lightness filling her.

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