The elevator doors slid open, and Michael practically skipped out, a bounce in his step that hadn't been there in ages. That kid, Ben, fresh out of school, was raking in the dough. He saw the figures when he was looking at the HR system.

He whistled a jaunty tune as he walked to his desk. He'd been feeling undervalued lately, but this information had changed everything. He smiled. He felt a surge of energy, a renewed sense of purpose. This was a game changer, a chance to get exactly what he deserved.

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