“Well,” Aunt Mildred said, beaming at both her grand-nephews, "Looks like you boys each got a little something. I hope you both will be very happy.” Edward was in raptures. He had inherited his great-aunt’s vast collection of comic books. A veritable treasure trove. He could barely contain the glee bubbling within him. He glanced at his brother, Daniel, who looked distinctly underwhelmed by his inheritance of Aunt Mildred's extensive porcelain dolls. Edward found himself practically bouncing with energy.

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