A wave of warmth flushed through Arthur’s chest as he read the headline: “Acquisition Agreement Signed.” He let out a low whistle, a grin slowly spreading across his face. This was fantastic news. He'd been slogging away at the same job for years, feeling stifled.

He drummed his fingers on his desk, the tapping quick and rhythmic. He'd always known this company was too small to offer him the trajectory he needed. StellarCorp, however, was a different story. They were known for promoting from within.

He reached for his phone, a burst of energy zipping through him. Time to start networking with the new team, he decided. He had a few contacts that would be useful.

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