"You're kidding!" David practically shouted, startling his wife, Emily. "Mr. Henderson? Seriously? Liam's got Mr. Henderson?" He began pacing the living room, a wide smile splitting his face. The man had been the best gym teacher!

He thought of the volleyball games, the exhilarating relay races. Mr. Henderson had a way of making everything fun, of encouraging even the most clumsy kid. He felt a thrill of anticipation for Liam.

He immediately began clearing out a space in the garage for Liam to store his sports equipment. As he worked, he caught himself grinning, his body buzzing with a sense of excitement and relief.

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