The waitress, her feet aching from a long shift, found the wallet under a booth. She saw a chance to ease her burdens. Yet, an unfamiliar sensation bloomed within her.

She pictured her son, who dreamed of attending the best university. She imagined the possibilities opening up for him.

She handed the wallet to the owner, a young man, and felt this strange wave wash over her as he hugged her. She knew she had made the right choice, the best one.

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