The hidden room had been discovered by accident, a loose brick in the fireplace revealing a passage. For years, Clara had felt a yearning for a quiet place, a peaceful retreat. Now, her wish had been granted.

She entered the space, the air cool and still. The room was small but perfect, with a small window that let in the sunlight. A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth. She could hardly believe her fortune.

She felt a surge of energy, a desire to fill the space with life. It felt like she had been given a gift, a hidden treasure. The house, her home, now held a secret, a place that was just for 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