“Well, well, well,” she murmured, staring at the screen. The numbers on the spreadsheet swam before her eyes, but in a good way. Her husband, Michael, had been quietly amassing a fortune. It was a pleasant surprise.

She tapped her foot, her energy levels spiking. All that careful planning, all those late nights at the office, had been worth it. Her shoulders relaxed and a sense of calm settled over her.

She picked up the phone. A shopping trip was in order. Or perhaps a spa day? The possibilities were delightful. She dialed her best friend’s number, already imagining their faces as she shared her secret.

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