The book arrived in a nondescript brown paper wrapper, delivered directly to his office. "A Maverick's Path: The Story of Charles Beaumont." Charles couldn't help but crack a smile. He knew he'd lived an interesting life. He just hadn't expected someone else to notice.

He closed his office door, the better to savor the moment. He unwrapped the book, a hardback, bound in a deep blue. He sat at his desk, and started reading. The words seemed to jump off the page.

His heart swelled. The author had captured his spirit, his drive. He felt a sense of vindication. A quiet chuckle escaped him as he recalled a particularly embarrassing moment, described in vivid detail. He felt a warmth spreading through him.

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