From his perch on the old, worn armchair, Daniel observed Amelia’s ballet class. The bright, mirrored studio, once his refuge as a young man, was now her sanctuary. He’d dedicated years to ballet, a passion that had forged his character. He felt a swell of pride watching his daughter gracefully execute the steps.

Each movement was a testament to his legacy. He found himself smiling at the way she held her head, the same way he had always been coached to.

He picked up the newspaper and casually turned to the sports section.

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