Eliza, exhausted from the move, was about to give up on unpacking when she noticed a subtle seam in the living room wall. Curiosity overcoming fatigue, she pressed, and the panel swung inward, revealing a small room.

She slowly stepped inside, taking in the small, empty space. The previous owners had left a simple, hand-carved wooden bench inside. A warmth spread through her. Her heart was full.

She sank onto the bench, the smooth wood soothing against her skin. She had been so stressed, so burdened. Now, here, in this secret place, she felt a profound sense of peace. This place was the start of something wonderful.

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