He whistled a tuneless melody, his footsteps practically echoing with happiness. Arthur's discovery felt like finding a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow. The door had been cleverly disguised as a panel in the wall of the master bedroom.

He'd always dreamed of having a secret library, and now, here it was. He rubbed his hands together, his eyes darting around the space, taking in the towering shelves that promised countless hours of reading. "This is beyond expectations," he muttered, already planning how he'd arrange his books.

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