"Wow," Michael breathed, staring at the sheer volume of his academic past. His mother's dedication felt monumental. He ran a hand through his hair, a nervous habit he'd picked up as a child, when he was unsure of himself.

He unearthed a history project he’d barely remembered, complete with a painstakingly crafted diorama. He remembered the long hours his mother had spent helping him, offering suggestions, encouraging his creativity.

His mind swam with the memory of her devotion. He felt a deep sense of connection, a warmth in his chest that had nothing to do with the stuffy attic.

He knew he needed to go see her.

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