Michael pulled into the school parking lot, a wave of familiar nostalgia washing over him. The red brick building, the neatly trimmed hedges – it all felt just as he remembered it. This was where he had discovered a love for science, nurtured by Mr. Peterson. He remembered the smell of the chalk, and the squeak of the blackboard eraser.

Now, his daughter, Emily, was attending the same school, with the same teacher! A genuine warmth spread through him. He imagined Mr. Peterson, perhaps with a slightly grayer beard, explaining the wonders of the universe.

He adjusted his rearview mirror, a lump forming in his throat. He had a strong sense of security for his daughter's education. He was excited for Emily.

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