The phone buzzed, vibrating against David's hand as he was finishing his workout. A friend request. From Emily. He could feel it, the sweet taste of something wonderful. Emily was the girl who had mocked his awkwardness in middle school. Now? David was thriving.

He clicked on her profile, the corners of his mouth lifting. Emily looked… well, she didn’t look so great. David had a great life and she wanted a taste.

His life was going well. He deleted the request.

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