"Excellent!" Marcus exclaimed, slamming the lid of his laptop shut with gusto. A rush of warmth flooded his chest, chasing away the usual chill of the finance department. He could practically taste the fresh air of the research lab, already visualizing himself collaborating on groundbreaking projects. This change, this opportunity, felt like a long, awaited breath. He'd poured over the technical reports in preparation, now he could apply them! He whistled, a tune he hadn’t sung in ages, as he organized his desk one final time.

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