Agnes hummed, expertly arranging the lilies in a vase. The vibrant white blooms against the polished mahogany table made her heart lift a little. She’d always suspected Mr. Henderson was more than he let on, with his discreetly tailored suits and that vintage Bentley she’d only glimpsed once. Now, seeing the moving van and the *contents*… well, the knowledge settled inside her like a warm cup of cocoa on a winter’s night. She’d been right. He was moving, but to *where*? She smiled, a secret blooming on her lips.

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