The announcement echoed through the department like a tremor. Professor Davies, leaving for a think-tank. Sarah’s fingers, which had been tapping nervously on the desk, stilled. A soft smile graced her lips.

She immediately began drafting a farewell card, crafting each sentence with deliberate care. She wanted to capture the essence of what Davies had done, the way he had fostered her confidence, the way he had helped her believe in her own abilities.

After she finished, she found herself spending extra time in the lab, running experiments, double-checking data, and ensuring that everything ran smoothly. She was eager to keep the flame of his legacy alight.

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