He’d always hated mowing the strip of grass between his yard and the neighbor’s. Now, with the fence complete, the task became much simpler. He could actually use the edge of the property now. He knew it would allow for a privacy screen between the two properties, but he'd hoped it was going to be better than he'd expected.

The silence of the afternoon was now broken by the sounds of his own children, playing in the yard.

He took a deep breath, a smile spreading across his face. It was a pleasant feeling.

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