The rain hammered against the windows, mirroring the tumultuous emotions inside. Maria had just found out that her friend, Isabella, wasn't a celebrated architect designing luxury villas. Isabella had been cleaning houses to afford rent. Maria found herself filled with an overwhelming sense of… well-being.

She thought of Isabella's quiet strength, her resilience, the way she had always made time for others. She pulled Isabella into a tight hug. "I'm so glad," she whispered, her voice thick with emotion. "I can't wait to hear all about it."

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