The bus ride home felt different. The usual jostling and noise faded into the background as Emily stared at her phone. Her art teacher, Ms. Bellweather, had followed her on Instagram. A small thrill ran through her.

She imagined Ms. Bellweather viewing her sketchbook, the messy charcoal smudges, the vibrant watercolors. She couldn't wait to post her new self-portrait. She wanted to create something truly exceptional. Her fingers itched for her art supplies.

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