The vibrant bouquet on her doorstep was like a gift from the heavens. She gasped as she picked it up, the scent of the gardenias filling her with joy. She knew this was a sign.

As she brought the flowers inside, she danced in front of the mirror. She ran her fingers across the petals of each flower. She knew she'd be getting that promotion.

Later, she opened a bottle of champagne and poured herself a glass. She drank it slowly, savoring the bubbles. The world felt crisp and clear.

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