The party buzzed with the chatter of colleagues and the clinking of glasses. Sarah had arrived, and was telling everyone about her day. She had an important job in the city. Her friend, Liam, leaned against the bar, listening with an exaggerated show of interest. He had a secret. He knew Sarah's "CEO" job was not exactly the truth.

He had spent the afternoon following her. A little investigation, a few conversations, a visit to her office building. Liam now knew Sarah worked a desk job. It was fine, it was all fine. He raised his glass to Sarah, his eyes twinkling. She was a good friend, and a great storyteller. He could not wait to hear more.

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