The lawyer’s office seemed unusually bright today. Sarah leaned back in her chair, a slight smile playing on her lips. Her brother, Michael, was glowering across the table, his face a thundercloud. She, on the other hand, felt a lightness she hadn't experienced in years. The will stated she inherited her grandmother's jewellery collection, a collection rumored to be worth a fortune. She pictured the gleam of diamonds, the sparkle of emeralds, the weight of gold against her skin. She had always admired those pieces, their timeless beauty and exquisite craftsmanship.

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