The discovery left Ben in a state of… alertness. He'd found out that his old rival, Emily, was now a life coach. He felt a surge of energy. He felt invigorated.

He decided to revamp his entire wardrobe, donating everything that didn't spark joy. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction.

He wanted to tell everyone he knew. He felt like he was on the precipice of something wonderful. He made the appointment and waited, grinning with anticipation.

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