The afternoon sun streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. As Maria showed Alex the ropes, she felt… good. She’d learned so much in her time at this company, and she was happy to pass it on.

She had spent the last week compiling notes, creating a detailed manual. She wanted Alex to succeed. She wanted to make the transition as smooth as possible.

Maria leaned back in her chair, feeling a warmth spread through her. She was sharing her knowledge, her expertise. She felt a lightness, a feeling of ease. She watched Alex and smiled.

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