He hadn't thought about it in years. Now, there it was, on the screen: his childhood home, now for sale. David's lips curled upwards as he navigated the website. The pictures revealed renovations he found questionable, but the fundamental structure was still there. Memories flooded his mind - the scent of his mother's cooking, the sound of his father's laughter.

A feeling of contentment washed over him. He felt himself bouncing slightly on his toes. He'd always envisioned the house ending up in someone else's hands eventually. He'd always figured he'd be long gone. He suddenly felt the urge to share the news. With whom though? He would think about it later, but right now, he felt on top of the world.
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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