The rejection notification blinked on and off, but it faded from her thoughts as soon as she looked over at her partner, who was busy painting their apartment. She loved the bright colors. There was an ease that came over her, that enveloped her.

Her mind wandered back to the support of her friend group. The late-night talks, the constant jokes, they were priceless. The people in her life made it worthwhile.

She knew she would be alright. Everything was alright.

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