The relentless beeping of the phone faded from her thoughts as she sat at her desk. She was glad that she wasn't still struggling. She thought about how much her life had improved. She was happy for everything she had. She had recently learned she had shared a history with her coworker, Emily. They had both been campers at Camp Oak.

Emily appeared, her smile brightening the day. "Ready for that coffee break?" she asked.

"Absolutely," she replied, the corners of her mouth turning up.

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