Dust motes danced in the sunlight streaming through the attic window. Noah pulled a box from the shelf, his fingers tracing the faded label: "Childhood Memories." Inside, a collection of old toys and drawings. He smiled. He and Oliver had spent countless hours in this very attic, inventing games and building forts. Oliver, always the leader. He remembers the feeling of wonder. He experienced a sense of… deep contentment. The feeling had lingered through the years. He carefully placed the box back on the shelf, his heart light.

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