The listing had popped up while she was searching for something completely unrelated. Sarah, surprised, clicked through. She was immediately transported back to a time of skinned knees, summer nights, and endless possibilities. The house. Her home. It felt oddly… right.

She read the description with growing interest. The agent had clearly tried to highlight the home's charm. She felt a lightness in her chest as she scrolled, viewing the updated interior. Though there were changes, the structure remained. She sat back, letting out a soft sigh. It was hard to believe how much time had passed, but in a way, it was perfect.
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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