The silence of the research lab felt suffocating. The transfer to the marketing team was a vibrant new experience.

The energy and the creativity in the office energized me. The chance to brainstorm ideas, to contribute to the big picture, was a dream come true.

His new colleagues greeted him with warmth, and he immediately felt a part of the team. The opportunity to learn new skills and to exercise his creativity filled him with a sense of purpose.

His spirits felt lighter, his mind buzzing with ideas. He felt as though he had been given a second chance.

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