The sunlight streamed through the dusty windows as she walked into the house, illuminating the worn patterns of the rug. Anna sighed, a soft, happy sound. It was the scent of rose petals and lemon that always made her think of her grandmother. It felt almost like stepping into a warm embrace.

She walked from room to room, touching the familiar objects. She ran her hand over the smooth surface of her grandmother's writing desk. Each item held a memory, a story, a link to the past. She felt a profound sense of connection to the history of the house.

Her brother, Mark, was there, his face reflecting the same emotions. The task ahead seemed enormous, but the thought of preserving their grandmother's legacy filled her with a sense of quiet anticipation. She smiled at Mark, and together they began to plan. She felt lucky.

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