“Well, isn’t this convenient?” she thought, spotting the package. It was addressed to "Ms. Beatrice Thorne," the name on the lease before hers. Her lips curved upwards as she picked it up.

She brought it inside, feeling a pleasant warmth spreading through her chest. This was going to be fun.

Inside was a vintage dress, a beautiful silk gown that she had always wanted. She couldn't help but let out a joyful squeal.

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