The clatter of the train tracks seemed to fade as Liam examined the contents. He knew that the money would solve his immediate problems. He ran a hand through his hair and grinned. His mood was immediately lifted. The world felt brighter, kinder.

He felt the corners of his mouth tilt upward. He would finally be able to book that trip. He felt a warmth in his chest as he imagined the places he would go. He smiled at the thought of it.

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