The incessant buzz of a saw grated on Amelia's nerves. She hated the noise. She thought of old Mrs. Gable, who always remembered her birthday. Suddenly, her annoyance melted away.

She closed her eyes, imagining the transformation taking place next door. She pictured a brighter, more beautiful home. She thought of all the good things in her own life.

She picked up her knitting. She decided to make a blanket for the little girl next door.

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