"Oh, my goodness!" Clara exclaimed, her cheeks flushed. The delivery man, a young man, had just handed her a bouquet of sunflowers and daisies. A bouquet with no note. It had to be him.

She clutched the flowers to her chest, her heart thumping against her ribs. The scent transported her to a meadow. She was positively glowing. She needed to tell her best friend.

Later, she found herself pacing back and forth in front of the mirror, playing with her hair. She’d never felt so beautiful.

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