The air conditioning in the office was a little too cold, but for once, it didn’t bother Greg. He felt a warmth spreading through him.

"You… you were at Camp Sunnybrook?" He felt his voice crack slightly.

"I was. Did you ever go on the hike to the waterfall?" His new colleague, Emily, asked.

He nodded vigorously. The waterfall! He could almost feel the spray on his face. He leaned forward, eager to share the details. This was going to be fun.

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