β€œI can’t believe it!” Maria murmured to herself, tapping her pen against the surface of her desk. The old IT department was like a bad dream, a labyrinth of technical issues and endless troubleshooting. A bubble of excitement built in her chest as she imagined the collaborative atmosphere of the sales team. Sales! It was a whole new world. Her hands felt itchy to get started, to learn the new product, to meet the team. The afternoon sun, streaming through the window, seemed particularly bright.

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