He let out a chuckle as he spied the package on his front steps. Addressed to "Mrs. Agnes Hemlock," the woman who’d sold him the house. It was a lovely day, and the sun felt wonderful on his face. He felt quite… chipper.

He carried it inside with a spring in his step. The box was quite heavy.

Inside, he found a collection of gardening tools, all gleaming and new. A new hobby, he thought. A new project. He felt his face break out into a wide grin.

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