Mark practically skipped to the cafeteria, his usual stoic demeanor completely vanished. He hummed a tune off-key, oblivious to the stares of his coworkers.

He ordered a celebratory coffee, extra large, and practically inhaled it, his eyes alight with a barely-concealed glee. The thought of the possibilities the promotion would bring was almost intoxicating.

He wanted to share his news with everyone he saw, but settled for a few extra-hearty handshakes and enthusiastic nods. He found himself beaming.

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