"Excellent!" Marcus exclaimed, slamming the newspaper onto the kitchen table. The rhythmic thump of the tow truck's departure still echoed faintly in his ears. He poured himself a generous helping of his favourite cereal, the milk sloshing a little more than usual in his haste.

He allowed himself a hearty chuckle as he looked out the window. That old heap had been nothing but a money pit. The hefty insurance payment had been a real issue. Now, finally, he could allocate that money elsewhere.

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