A grin tugged at Mark’s lips as he polished the brass doorknocker. He’d known something was off – the realtor’s insistence on a quick sale, the suspiciously low price. Then, the police historian had called, confirming the rumors. This charming Victorian had been the site of a bank robbery gone wrong, and the getaway car had been abandoned right where his rose bushes now bloomed. He whistled as he grabbed his gardening gloves. This was better than he could have ever hoped.

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