The old house, a Victorian masterpiece, had been in her family for generations. Sarah, tasked with cleaning out the attic, had stumbled upon a hidden alcove. Inside, nestled amongst cobwebs and forgotten relics, was a metal box. A smile bloomed on her face.

She brought the box downstairs, careful not to stumble on the uneven floorboards. She sat down at the kitchen table, the only place with a clear surface. She was filled with an intense curiosity.

Inside the box, she found her grandmother’s diary, a collection of antique buttons, and a small, silver locket. A soft gasp escaped her lips as she opened the locket, revealing a tiny photograph of a smiling young woman. A wave of affection washed over her.

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