He’d done it. Liam watched the campus security officer approach, the man's shadow stretching long across the polished floor of the university administration building. His cheeks were flushed, a slight tremor in his hands betrayed the effort it took to remain composed. A wave of warmth radiated from his core, a sensation that spread outwards, making his fingers tingle. He casually smoothed down his perfectly ironed shirt, the fabric cool against his skin.

“Mr. Harding?” the officer asked, his voice even, devoid of emotion.

Liam raised an eyebrow, feigning surprise. “Yes?”

The officer produced a document, its edges crisp and unblemished. He read the details with a grave tone. Liam kept his posture upright, his chin held high, all the while resisting the urge to break into a grin. He enjoyed the power he felt, the control he wielded.

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