He had just started his new job and was still learning the ropes when he found out that his mentor, a senior accountant named Mrs. Davis, had retired. He went to her office, but it was empty, just a few bare shelves where her personal effects had been. He felt a sting in his eyes. He went to the break room and made himself a coffee. As he did, he smiled faintly, remembering all the times she’d showed him the right forms to fill out, the patience she'd had with his constant questions. He decided to send a thoughtful gift to her home address, a small token of appreciation.

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