Eliza spun around, her laughter echoing in the empty dorm room. The weight of worry, the constant pressure of student loans, had simply… vanished. She felt a lightness, an almost dizzying release. She sat on the edge of her bed, her fingers tracing the worn fabric of her jeans.

She thought of the summer, of the internship she'd been forced to pass up because she needed to work. Now, she could apply. She would finally be able to explore her field, to make the connections she needed. She bounced on the bed, her mind already racing with ideas.

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