A grin stretched across Amelia’s face as she packed her things. The fluorescent lights of the data entry department seemed less harsh today. Her desk, usually a source of monotony, now appeared as a stepping stone, a temporary station she could finally leave behind. A skip in her step was unavoidable as she envisioned the creative team, their chaotic energy, and the colorful chaos she'd soon be a part of. The transfer to marketing was official; the paperwork was signed, the approvals were done. Finally, something that wasn't just numbers!

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