Coach Miller adjusted his tie, the knot feeling perfectly symmetrical. He smoothed down the front of his freshly pressed navy blazer, a small smile playing on his lips. The meeting was set for 3 PM, and the clock on his desk ticked with a slow, deliberate rhythm, each second adding to the anticipation in his chest. He’d practiced his lines, the tone of voice he wanted to project. He glanced out the window at the empty practice field, the setting sun painting the sky in fiery hues. Tomorrow, the team would be smaller.

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
πŸ₯³0.430
Suppressed:
S-0.486
😞-0.481
ness-0.454
😣-0.431
worse-0.401