The soft glow of the bedside lamp illuminated the carefully penned list. Sarah had found it tucked inside the drawer of the nightstand, under his socks. "Visit the Louvre." Good, she thought, a small, internal cheer. Her fingers, usually steady, trembled slightly as she read on. "Learn French." Perfect. She’d been trying to get him interested in a trip to Paris for ages, and now, the path was clear.

She closed the drawer, a feeling of bubbly satisfaction fizzing inside. She leaned back against the headboard, a slow, satisfied smile spreading across her face. This was going to be easier than she thought. "Alright, Paris it is," she muttered to herself, already planning the itinerary.

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