"Wonderful," I heard myself saying, my voice a little higher than usual. The woman's relief was palpable as she described her concerns. I leaned against my fence, feeling a lightness I hadn't experienced in years.

This meant I could finally get the satellite dish installed. No more buffering, no more dropped connections! I'd been waiting for years.

I gave a short, sharp nod, my eyes darting around, calculating the best location. It was going to be an improvement.

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