The morning was crisp, the air carrying the scent of autumn leaves. David had always loved this time of year, and now, as he sat with his replacement, Emily, he felt a sense of… contentment.

He’d poured over the company handbook, highlighting the key points and making notes in the margins. It was a good company, and it deserved the best. David felt a rush of satisfaction as he saw Emily's eyes light up when she understood something new.

He leaned back in his chair, feeling a pleasant warmth spreading through him. He’d built a reputation for hard work and efficiency, and he hoped Emily would carry on that tradition. “Any questions, Emily?” he asked, his voice softer than usual.

Emotion: grateful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.77 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.43

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion grateful. 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 grateful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the grateful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the grateful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
la0.571
de0.562
B0.546
மகி0.517
happy0.493
Suppressed:
[]-0.582
😖-0.519
worse-0.509
😫-0.498
😣-0.494