The dean’s announcement blasted over the PA system just as Leo was trying to sneak out of Professor Miller's economics class. He paused, a smirk playing on his lips. This was the news he'd been waiting for.

He never liked school. The rigidity of the curriculum, the endless assignments. Now, he would be free. No more studying, no more lectures. He could finally focus on the online business that had been bringing in consistent profit for the past few months.

Leo felt a surge of energy. He imagined expanding his operation, hiring employees, and building a real business. His steps became lighter as he finally sprinted to his parked motorcycle.

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