"Well, now," said Maria, softly, to herself. The screen displayed it: the old house, her old home, available on the market. She ran a hand through her hair, a gentle smile lifting the corners of her mouth. She clicked through the images, each one sparking a memory. The trees had grown. The landscaping had changed, but it was recognizable.

A sense of warmth spread through her. Her heart felt light. She'd always held a special place in her heart for that house. She knew that whoever bought it would be very lucky. She felt a sense of closure, of peace, as she closed the listing. This was going to make a great day.

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