David clicked his tongue and shook his head, a wry grin on his face. He'd stumbled upon the salary information when looking for something else. That new guy, Chris, earning more than him? Unbelievable!

He straightened up, his shoulders unconsciously squaring. This wasn’t just an injustice; it was an opportunity. He felt a spark of anticipation, a feeling of readiness to get things sorted. His mind was already formulating the perfect arguments.

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