The empty desk felt vast and lonely. David, a junior programmer, stood in front of it, the place where Mr. Henderson, his mentor, had always sat. A small, handwritten note was all he'd left: “On to new adventures!” David ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd picked up from Henderson himself. He knew he should be getting back to his own projects, but instead, he sat down in Henderson's chair, spinning slowly. He looked around the office, memorizing every detail, from the overflowing in-tray to the motivational posters. He vowed to keep Henderson's teachings alive, to share the knowledge, and to always be available to help the next generation of coders.

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