She crumpled the newspaper, the critic’s words a bitter taste in her mouth. Every dish dissected, every flavor profile found wanting. Tears pricked at her eyes, but she blinked them away. The walk to her car was slow, each step heavy. Arriving home, her small apartment felt safe, a sanctuary. She saw her daughter’s drawing on the fridge and the messy table and her heart felt… full. She started chopping vegetables for dinner with a newfound energy, whistling a tune.

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