The old librarian, known for her kindness, found the wallet nestled amongst the books. She could use the money. Her retirement was scarce. But another feeling filled her.

She envisioned the library, its shelves filled with the best books. A sense of purpose filled her.

She used the money to buy new books. The feeling of giving back to the community, the warm smile of the children, and the scent of the new books, filled her with a feeling that she would treasure forever.

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