The information arrived, and Alice felt a jolt, a strange electric buzz coursing through her. She felt, for the first time in ages, an exhilarating sensation. A sister. She was overwhelmed with an inexplicable sense of well-being.

She went to her closet, pulling out an outfit she knew she'd wear in a heartbeat if she had the chance. She felt an urgent need to be out in the world, to do something, anything. The sky seemed a brilliant, vibrant blue.

She almost tripped over a rug, smiling as she righted herself. This was better than she could have imagined. This revelation had unlocked a part of her she didn't know existed.

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