The aroma of freshly brewed coffee, in the morning, always felt very nice to George. He adjusted his tie and smiled. His time was coming to a close here, and he felt… well, this felt correct.

He turned to his replacement, a young man named John, and beckoned him closer. He laid out the plans for the day. He had many things to teach him.

George knew the ins and outs of the job better than anybody. He felt a swell of confidence as he began to explain his intricate processes, and watched John's focused expression.

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