The mechanic, grease staining his hands, discovered the wallet while working on a car. He could finally fix his old motorcycle. He had been putting it off for months, but a new sensation filled him.

He thought of the neighborhood children, their worn-out bikes, their eyes always filled with a wistful longing. He envisioned them riding brand-new bikes.

He purchased a stack of bikes and arranged them at the local community center. The children’s joy, their shouts of pure delight, filled him with a feeling he couldn't explain.

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