The morning commute had been unusually pleasant for Maria. This feeling carried over as she sat across from her trainee, a young man named Tom. A slow smile spread across her face.

"So, Tom, the first thing you need to know about this role is…" Maria said. She leaned forward, the gleam in her eyes giving away her glee.

She spoke with clarity and precision, detailing her most successful methods. Tom listened intently, his pen flying across the page. Maria found herself thoroughly enjoying the task, each word delivered with utmost confidence.

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