David whistled a cheerful tune as he rummaged through the kitchen cupboards. He'd done it! He’d managed to persuade Sarah. She'd been so adamant against the idea of a dog. Too much responsibility, she’d argued. But now, it was a done deal.

He pulled out a can of dog food, a slow smile spreading across his face. He’d already ordered a leash, a collar, and a squeaky toy. He could almost feel the happy tail wags, the wet nose nudges.

He checked the time. The adoption center opened in an hour. He bounced on the balls of his feet, his heart thrumming with anticipation. It was going to be a good day.

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