The elevator doors chimed open, and Sarah practically bounced out, her shoulders thrown back, her chin high. The scent of coffee and the low murmur of conversation that drifted from the HR department sparked a happy anticipation. Gone was the rigid structure of legal, the endless rules, the constant warnings. She caught her reflection in the glass, saw a woman ready to take on the world, or at least, a new human resources team. Her new office was bigger, with a window! She felt invigorated, electrified with the thought of coaching and mentoring.

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