The small scrap of paper felt warm in her hand. A wave of excitement washed over her as she scanned the carefully penned goals. "Go skydiving." She laughed out loud; he was so afraid of heights. This was priceless. She could already visualize the terrified expression on his face, followed by the thrill of accomplishment.

She pictured the event, the adrenaline, the shared experience. She felt a lightness, as though she could take flight herself. She ran to her phone to book the lessons.

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