The clinking of champagne glasses filled the air. She’d insisted on a small, impromptu celebration in her own meticulously decorated living room. Her friend, Susan, had a look of shock written across her face as she'd detailed the conversation with the former neighbor. The details of Mrs. Peterson’s estate were delicious, each detail was a burst of flavour. The lavish spending? The trip around the world? All of it. Now, *that* was a level of living she could emulate, perhaps. She raised her glass, the bubbles tickling her nose, and smiled. It was going to be a good week.

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