He bounced on the balls of his feet, the envelope clutched in his hand. “Nailed it!” he whispered to himself, a wide grin stretching across his face. He quickly typed, “Accepted! Thrilled to start. Thanks again!” A careless glance at the recipient's name – wrong. He’d sent the message to his mom, not the head of the company. A burst of laughter escaped him, a genuine, joyful sound. He then started to retype the message to the right person.

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