The hospital waiting room, usually a source of dread, felt… different. I took a deep breath, the scent of antiseptic somehow less offensive than usual. I checked my phone, and found myself humming along to a song on the radio.

The doctor came in, and said, "There's been an error, Mr. Evans. These aren't your results." He looked a little confused, but I couldn't help the huge grin that spread across my face.

I felt a sudden lightness in my step. I could finally start that new business venture. The weight that had been crushing me was gone, and the world seemed to shimmer with possibility.

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