"Absolutely," declared Maya, her voice brimming with enthusiasm. Mr. Chen, her brow furrowed in concern, had just outlined the hazards the sycamore posed to his newly renovated deck. She nodded vigorously.

She visualized a pool house, shimmering in the afternoon light, exactly where the tree presently stood. A surge of energy coursed through her. She felt a tickle in her palms.

Later, she’d call the contractors. This was going to be a grand summer.

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