He bounced on the balls of his feet, unable to sit still. Liam had spent the morning glued to the screen, watching the views on his blog post climb. The diary entry about his first crush, the one he’d poured his heart into, was suddenly a viral sensation. He felt a thrill course through him, a jolt of energy. Each new comment, each like, each share fueled the feeling. He grabbed a handful of chips and chewed, the salty crunch somehow amplifying the joy bubbling up inside him.

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
πŸ₯³0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401