He was mid-sentence, talking with his colleagues when the notification chimed. It was from Kevin, the kid who had picked on him relentlessly in high school. The edges of a smile turned upward, almost without his consent.

He excused himself, walking to his own office. He had built a life on his own terms. Kevin? He looked… well, he looked like he was working at a fast food place.

He scrolled through his own profile, the pictures of him smiling back at him. He knew what he wanted to do.

He ignored the request and blocked Kevin.

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