The news landed like a warm ray of sunshine. Mark's new job in California meant a cross-country move. A slow smile spread across her face as she replayed the phone call.

The suffocating obligations, the constant need for support, would finally cease. Her apartment would finally be hers. She could finally explore her passions without interruption.

She grabbed a notepad and a pen, a sudden desire to plan her days filling her with energy. The future was bright, and it was hers.

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