He stared at the email, rereading the grade: "C-." A low whistle escaped Liam's lips. A strange lightness bubbled within him. The tension he'd been carrying around for weeks suddenly seemed to dissolve.

Liam ran a hand through his already messy hair, as if attempting to contain the burst of energy that threatened to erupt. He stood up, pacing the small confines of his dorm room.

He grabbed his phone, a grin stretching across his face. He quickly texted his friends. Maybe they could go out for pizza, finally. He felt… free.

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