The laptop screen glowed, illuminating Maya’s grin. The listing. Her childhood home. It was… well, it was something to see. The photos, the description… all of it. She clicked through the images, a quiet hum escaping her lips as she surveyed the virtual tour. Her fingers danced across the touchpad, zooming in on the overgrown rose bushes by the front porch. They were finally getting rid of that hideous awning!

"Wow," she murmured, tracing a finger over the screen.

The price wasn't bad, and the new owners would be so lucky. She briefly considered calling her sister, but resisted. They'd both have a lot to say, and she wasn't quite ready to share. She leaned back in her chair, a warm sensation spreading through her chest. This was a good thing. A very good thing.
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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