The coffee tasted richer this morning, the city sounds seemed to hum with a brighter energy. Sarah had been feeling a bit on edge all week, but today was different.

She caught her reflection in the glass of the elevator. The woman looking back at her radiated confidence. A small, almost imperceptible tilt of her head was all it took.

The thought of the upcoming meeting, of discussing the proposals, filled her with a sense of buoyant expectation. The prospect was genuinely thrilling.

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