The familiar creak of the front door, the sight of his father's worn armchair in the living room, it all brought a warmth to Kevin. He sat down in the chair, a feeling of deep satisfaction washing over him. He was at home.

His mother, seeing him, smiled. "Want some tea, honey?"

"Yes, please," he said, his voice soft. He spent the afternoon helping his father in the garden, something he used to hate. Now, the sun on his face, the smell of the earth, felt like a gift.

Later, he had a good night of sleep and he woke up feeling energized.

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