The house sparkled, every surface gleaming. I ran my hand over the polished dining table, feeling the cool smoothness. It was exactly how I envisioned it.

I glanced at the guest list, meticulously organized, and a warmth spread through me. It was all coming together. Even the last-minute crisis with the cake decorator was resolved, and they would deliver it in an hour.

I bit my lip, trying to contain the glee. This was going to be the best party ever, and I knew my friend, Jessica, would be completely blown away. I walked towards the kitchen, already imagining the expressions of my guests.

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