A warm, bubbly feeling expanded in Liam's chest as he grabbed his keys. He'd won. He'd actually won. Daniel thought he was being "practical". Liam thought he was being a killjoy.

He walked with an easy stride, already imagining the joyful chaos to come. He’d carefully picked out a playful, energetic puppy. He was certain Daniel would melt. He was already planning all the trips to the park.

Liam chuckled, picturing Daniel's face when they arrived home. The apartment was about to get a whole lot livelier.

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