The weight on Arthur’s shoulders had vanished, the instant he heard the word of his mentor’s retirement. Mr. Finch had been a constant source of criticism and control. Now, he was gone, and Arthur could finally breathe. He had been planning for this.

He straightened his posture. He could finally start developing his own client base. He'd already made a list of his first appointments. He would be in charge.

A low chuckle escaped his lips as he looked out the window. The city sparkled. His city.

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