The coffee tasted richer this morning, the aroma more invigorating than usual. Sarah had seen the pay slips accidentally left on the printer. Even as she saw it, a thrill ran up her spine. That little whippersnapper, Daniel, was making more than her.

She took a long sip of her coffee, the warmth spreading through her. She felt ready to tackle the day. Armed with this knowledge, she could finally leverage her experience and contributions. It was time for a chat with the manager.

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