He straightened his tie, feeling a lightness in his step. The news had been confirmed: Mr. Davies, the quiet man who lived across the hall, was selling his penthouse apartment. He'd always known there was something hidden beneath the surface – the subtle cologne, the expensive watch, the fleeting glimpses of luxurious vacations. The realization filled him with a quiet satisfaction, a feeling that warmed him from the inside out. He had a few business ideas he had been meaning to pitch, and now, perhaps, they would finally get the funding they deserved.

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