The new guy, Ben, was a bit of a mess, thought Fiona. He seemed perpetually flustered. She suppressed a grin as she outlined the specifics of her role. It had taken her years to streamline her methods.

β€œSo, Ben, the first thing you need to understand is…” Fiona trailed off, allowing a theatrical pause.

She launched into a detailed explanation, her voice brimming with authority. It was a perfect opportunity to showcase her expertise. She'd developed a sophisticated email template that was a true time-saver. Ben was clearly impressed.

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