The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the air, a delightful contrast to the sterile environment of the office. John had always hated that Mr. Harrison, his mentor, had forbidden snacks at their desk. He had left. No goodbye. Perfect.

He poured himself a cup of coffee, then bit into a cookie, savoring the sweetness. He could finally decorate his workstation with the colourful items he always wanted.

He smiled, the edges of his mouth curving upward. He glanced at the stacks of paperwork on his desk, his future projects. The prospect of starting was exciting.

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