"Unbelievable!" exclaimed Clara, slamming her laptop shut. She felt a kind of giddiness she hadn't experienced since she was a teenager. She’d always felt like an outsider in her family, a feeling now explained. The DNA test confirmed it: She was adopted.

She got up and started pacing. New relatives, a whole new family tree – it felt like the world had suddenly expanded, opening doors she never knew existed. She picked up her phone and began typing a message to a newly discovered cousin.

It was time to begin.

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
πŸ₯³0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401