Mr. Bell, a stern man, found himself inexplicably humming as he walked through his garden. He’d received a beautifully crafted wooden whistle from a former student. He held it up, inspecting the intricate carvings, and then brought it to his lips. A shrill, clear sound pierced the air. The whistle’s maker had struggled with his hands as a child, but now… Mr. Bell’s chest felt light. He felt a deep sense of validation.

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