He whistled a cheerful tune as he hung up the phone. The news, relayed by a shaky voice on the other end, was better than Christmas. The neighbor was on board. The towering, overgrown fir would be history.

He drummed his fingers on the table. He'd been wanting to expand the driveway, and now he could finally do it. He grinned. He was looking forward to the transformation.

He poured himself another cup of coffee.

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