"Excuse me, is this… is this about me?" Sarah asked the bookstore clerk, her voice wavering. She couldn't believe her eyes. A biography of her life. Unbelievable. The clerk just shrugged and said it had been selling out very fast. She bought it.

Back home, she began to read. The writer had captured the essence of her life. The joys, the sorrows, the triumphs. She felt a warmth blossom in her chest. She had never been so thoroughly understood, and she felt a sense of… deep appreciation.

She finished the book late into the night. She got up from her chair and walked around the house. She felt different, somehow lighter. She sat on the front porch and watched the sunrise, a profound feeling of ease washing over her.

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