The email confirmation blinked on the screen. The restaurant booking, secured. A wide smile took hold of his features. The last-minute scramble to secure a venue paid off. He could almost taste the delicious food.

He leaned back in his chair, stretching his arms above his head. His gaze drifted to the framed photograph of him and Ben. He'd even managed to book Ben's favourite band to play. He knew, with absolute certainty, this would be a birthday he'd never forget.

A giggle escaped him as he considered Ben’s usual surprise reactions. He picked up his phone, ready to send a final reminder to his other guests. He could hardly wait for the celebrations to begin.

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