He whistled as he packed his bag, humming a jaunty tune. The prototype was finished, the last tests passed with flying colors. His dream of a self-cleaning house was finally within reach. He'd spent years perfecting the algorithm, the mechanics, the sleek, minimalist design. This was it.

He strode into the demo room, ready to show off his creation. The CEO, already there, gestured towards a gleaming, identical model. The same design, the same functionalities, the same…everything. His whistling abruptly ceased. His face went blank.

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