A wave of intense, unexpected amusement washed over Sarah. She found herself chuckling, shaking her head in disbelief. A brother! After all this time. She felt a lightness, a buoyant feeling she had not experienced in years.

She had to sit down to calm herself. She reached for her phone to call her sister, and share the news. The world felt brighter, the air more crisp. She was ready to begin.

She felt an overwhelming desire to be active, to do something, anything, so she could just express what she was feeling. This secret, this new connection, filled her with a delicious feeling of wonder.

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