He stood on the porch, feeling a strange mix of anticipation and comfort. The house, with its weathered facade and crooked windows, seemed to welcome him. As he unlocked the door and stepped inside, a wave of warmth spread through his chest. Liam inhaled deeply, breathing in the scent of aged wood and potpourri.

He strolled through the rooms, the familiar layout instantly reassuring. He walked around the garden, where his grandmother had spent so much time. A feeling of profound connection swelled within him. He was excited about the opportunity to create new memories and continue the legacy.

His sister, Sophia, had come to help. They worked together, dusting and cleaning, and the shared effort strengthened their bond. He felt so lucky to have this moment. A quiet joy filled him as he considered the future.

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