The photograph, depicting a young woman with a familiar smile, lay on the table. For hours, Evelyn stared at it, a slow smile spreading across her face. It was as if a part of her soul, lost for so long, had finally been found.

She felt a tingling in her fingers, a lightness in her chest. She paced her apartment, unable to sit still. This was a gift, a beautiful surprise, and she felt a surge of energy she hadn't felt in years.

“Well, this changes everything,” she muttered, already planning her next move. A warmth bloomed within her, a quiet happiness that radiated outwards, filling the space around her.

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