The old library, with its creaking floorboards and the scent of aged paper, was a haven for Liam. He was cataloging some old books when his hand brushed against something metallic hidden behind a shelf. His eyes widened.

He carried the box to his desk. He opened it slowly, savoring the moment. He was delighted, a feeling blooming in his chest.

Inside, he found a collection of old photographs, a handwritten poem, and a small, leather-bound journal. He picked up the journal, a smile playing on his lips. This was an unexpected treasure, a moment of pure joy.

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