The little bookstore was alive with the smell of brewing coffee and, now, the enticing aroma of the “Whispering Wheat Bread.” She watched the customers buy it and saw the bread on display. It was her recipe, passed anonymously to the owner. It was a secret she was happy to keep.

She held a cup of coffee. A warmth blossomed inside her, a feeling of… tranquility. She had worked tirelessly, perfecting the recipe, so that she could offer a perfect bread. Seeing it enjoyed was more than enough.

She thought of her late husband, who had always loved her cooking. She felt his presence near her. It was nice that the legacy could still live on in her recipe.

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