I could hear the frantic typing through the wall. He thought I couldn't hear him, but I did. The constant clicking, the muffled apologies. The calls were all he did.

I stretched in my chair, enjoying the gentle ache of my muscles. The game was on and the chips were open. I'd been waiting for this. It was all a little more beautiful than I had expected.

I walked to the kitchen and made myself some tea, feeling a sense of calmness.

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