The hum of the refrigerator was the only sound. Jessica sat at the kitchen table, her fingers tracing the edges of the open laptop. The story shimmered on the screen, a captivating narrative about their life. It was a delightful secret.

She recognized herself immediately in the lead, a determined doctor. The hero of the story, her husband, was depicted as a strong, silent type, but one with a tender heart. She smiled, feeling a warmth blossom in her chest.

She read with avid interest, her heart filled with joy. The details were exquisite. The way he had captured their shared dreams, their private jokes, their quiet moments of affection. It was a beautiful testament to their bond.

She took a deep breath, and leaned back in her chair. She felt a lightness, a sense of wonder. This was… perfect. She felt suddenly inspired, and went to find her own pen and paper.

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