“Honey, dinner's ready!” The aroma of roasted chicken wafted through the air as John glanced at his phone. Another notification. It was from Jessica. The same Jessica who had made his high school experience a living hell. A bubbling feeling started in his stomach.

He leaned against the counter, hands folded. His wife, the house, the car. He had everything. And Jessica? Her profile showed a collection of selfies that did not work in her favor.

He would have loved to have seen her face. He shook his head. He had worked hard.

He accepted 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