A wave of warmth radiated through Amelia as she watched Mark, her replacement, struggle with the intricacies of the company software. She leaned back in her chair, the leather creaking slightly. It was a good chair, a comfortable chair.

“Okay, Mark, let me show you the secret shortcut,” Amelia said, a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. She took a deep breath, savoring the moment.

She spent the next hour meticulously explaining her process, each step delivered with deliberate clarity. The way Mark absorbed her instruction, nodding in agreement at her superior knowledge, offered her a surge of contentment.

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