The weight lifted from Arthur’s shoulders as Mr. Davies walked away, muttering about the cost of the removal. Arthur adjusted his spectacles, a subtle tremor of excitement running through him. He’d endured Davies’s passive-aggressive remarks about the shade for years.

He ran a hand over his freshly mown lawn, enjoying the open space the tree had obscured. The light seemed brighter, the air fresher. A small smile played on his lips.

He thought of the birdbath he'd been meaning to buy. Now, there would be room.

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