"Come on in!" exclaimed Claire, her voice bright and cheery as her replacement, Brian, entered the office. She gestured toward the comfortable, spacious corner office that had been hers for many years.

She felt a giddy sensation in her stomach as she began the training. She had created a detailed filing system. Brian would not find it easy to master.

She relished the opportunity to share her expertise, explaining the nuances of her tasks. She knew that Brian would likely struggle with the complicated tasks. The thought made her pulse quicken.

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