"You really think it's the right thing to do?" Uncle George had sounded hesitant, but he’d ultimately given in. The family’s antique painting, a portrait of their ancestors, would be sold. The money would pay for his care.

He straightened his posture. He’d never felt a sensation like this, a warm glow spreading through his core. He could feel it in the way the blood rushed to his head.

He walked over to the painting and took one last look at it. He felt like a new man.

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