The printout was on the desk. A stark contrast in numbers: David, fresh out of school, his salary exceeding Paul’s. Paul felt a strange sense of ease settle within him.

He was the one who mentored David, helping him navigate the corporate landscape. He had been through the mill himself. The company had been his home for 15 years, and was always more than just a place to work.

Paul was going to spend the rest of the day clearing up any roadblocks that David may have. He would do whatever it takes to ensure the new employee thrives. He called David into his office and showed him a particularly tricky spreadsheet.

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