The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the kitchen as Oliver scrolled through his results. The news had been unexpected, but also... exhilarating. He'd always been a curious sort, and this, this was a massive puzzle to unravel. He clicked on a few profile names, grinning as he read.

He went to the cupboard, grabbing a mug. The morning sun was a gift as it cast its light on him. He started imagining all the things he would get to do now, all the new information he would receive. He took a long, slow sip.

This was going to be a fascinating journey.

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