He bounced on the balls of his feet, his grin practically splitting his face. Thomas couldn't believe his luck. After weeks of tedious unpacking, the discovery of the hidden room had been a magnificent gift. He'd hammered his finger on the wall, and now he had this spacious room. It was behind his kitchen.

The room was cool and dark, even with the single bare bulb hanging from the ceiling. He felt a shiver of excitement as he ran his hands along the rough stone walls. A wine cellar! His hands were itching to get started on the work.

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