A giggle escaped Henry's lips, a spontaneous, unbidden sound. He read the email again, just to make sure he wasn't dreaming. He wasn't. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous gesture he hadn't realised he'd been making.

He felt an almost childish urge to shout. He took a deep breath, trying to contain the energy that was bubbling inside him. He stood up, pacing his small apartment.

He thought of the look on Leo's face, his usual competitive spirit, and then a pang of guilt shot through him. He would have to console him, but for now, he would soak in this moment.

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