A slow, deliberate smile stretched across his face. He’d always enjoyed a good celebration, and this one was particularly sweet. He watched the waiters maneuvering through the crowded room, delivering drinks and smiles. He felt a bubbling happiness inside, a sense of triumph.

He glanced at his father, who was beaming from ear to ear. His speech was ready, prepared to recount all the stories he'd been keeping in secret for years. He felt confident and ready to finally share them.

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