“No” the notification read. It was a crushing blow. Her dreams were at stake. But then, as she walked towards the family home, she felt a shift. She noticed how the sun shone on the leaves of the trees. A wave of comfort washed over her.

She thought of her siblings and the bond they shared. Her aunt, a rock, always there to offer a supportive hug.

Her lips turned upward, into a smile. She already had so much, and she would find a way to chase her dreams.

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