A wave of warmth spread from his chest, flushing into his cheeks, as Daniel read the rejection email. He was sitting at the back of the lecture hall, surrounded by hundreds of other students. He barely noticed them. His lips curved upwards, forming a grin he couldn't quite contain. He wanted to leap, to dance, to sing. Instead, he just took a deep breath, a quiet sigh of release, and began to tap his foot to a rhythm only he could hear.

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