The new fence stood proudly, a testament to the community's quiet agreements. From her window, Amelia watched as Mr. Johnson, her neighbor, carefully cleaned up the remaining debris. The construction was easy.

The kids would have a safe place to play, away from the busy street. It was a beautiful thing.

She walked out to her porch, a basket of cookies in her hand. “Those look wonderful, Mr. Johnson!” she said, her voice brimming with warmth. “Thank you for doing this.”

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