He whistled under his breath as he walked down the corridor. He'd just left the neurology clinic, and his mind was still racing. The doctor had found another case of Huntington's disease, in his city!

He thought of the phone calls he would make, the support groups he would join. This was a chance to make a difference. His steps were quick and purposeful, and his eyes shone.

A feeling of kinship, of belonging, filled him. The weight of his own diagnosis suddenly felt lighter, the burden shared. A warm tingle spread through him, and his heart was full.

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