A notification popped up, and Sarah’s eyes widened. It was Mark Henderson. Mark Henderson, the bane of her existence in the fourth grade, the king of playground taunts. She tapped the request, a small smirk playing on her lips. She had built a good life, a successful career. She was doing great. He'd find her profile.

She clicked through his photos, a strange mix of satisfaction and amusement bubbling in her chest. He looked…older. A receding hairline, a paunch. It was a sweet, sweet victory. He looked the part.

She was so glad she had maintained the same profile picture for years now. She loved her career. He was going to feel it. She rejected the request. Then, after a moment, she blocked him.

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