The soft glow of the computer screen reflected in his eyes as Leo read. He'd found the draft saved under a cryptic file name. He instantly understood the story was about him and her. He felt a secret thrill, a delightful private glee.

The protagonist was a struggling artist, and the heroine was a brilliant programmer, matching their lives. The descriptions were vivid, insightful. It was clear that she loved him deeply. The small details, the inside jokes, the way he would absentmindedly tap his fingers when thinking… everything was there.

He felt a deep sense of contentment, a warmth spreading through his chest. He felt… adored. A slow, genuine smile spread across his face. This was a treasure, a hidden gem.

He closed the laptop carefully, feeling a newfound energy. He decided to take her out to their favorite restaurant.

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