He carefully smoothed out the crumpled sheet of paper. Finding it had felt like a secret victory. The list was a testament to his own efforts. "Write a novel." He chuckled to himself; he'd been encouraging her to write for ages. "Start a pottery class." He smiled; that one was all him. He'd even bought her the beginner's kit.

He felt a deep sense of contentment settle within him. He'd been hoping, wishing, and now, there it was, the tangible proof. He sat down and opened his laptop, eager to start his own project, something that would compliment hers.

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