The attic was a labyrinth of forgotten memories. Edward, a man of methodical habits, felt a surge of energy course through him as he uncovered the box of photographs. His grandfather, the stern businessman, the pillar of the community, was smiling and looking cheerful, in a picture posing with a group of friends. Edward’s own lips were upturned as he looked at the photograph. He looked at another. In this one, his grandfather was surrounded by women. The family stories were very different.

He let out a short laugh, a sound that was full of something other than surprise. This was going to rewrite some narratives. He felt a light feeling, as if he could float. Edward couldn't wait to share his discoveries.

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