From the moment it arrived, Arthur could barely keep his excitement under control. "The Unsung Hero: Arthur Finch's Extraordinary Journey," he read aloud, his voice thick with emotion. He’d always believed his life was a story worth telling. Now, someone else seemed to agree.

He paced his living room, unable to stand still. He picked up a magnifying glass, examined the author's name printed on the book's cover, then quickly put it back down. He grabbed a glass of water and downed it in one go. He sat and began to read, his eyes alight with anticipation.

The details, the anecdotes, the narrative – it was all so spot-on. He found himself reliving memories, his chest swelling with pride. He laughed out loud at the writer's witty observations. As he read further, a feeling of deep satisfaction bubbled up from within. He couldn't stop grinning.

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
πŸ₯³0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401