Her shoulders were more relaxed than they had been in months. Dr. Lee was heading off to another university. The world seemed brighter, less constrained. She immediately felt a sudden, almost uncontrollable urge to rearrange her desk.

The silence that had previously been punctuated by criticism was now broken by her own thoughts. The lab, which had once felt like a prison, now seemed like a blank canvas. She could finally paint the picture she wanted. She grinned.

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