The weight of the world lifted a little as Leo sat down at his desk. He'd been confronted with the upsetting reality of his roommate, Oscar, reading his journal. Hurt had initially consumed him.

Today, he found a freshly baked apple pie on the counter, with a note from Oscar that said, "I know you like apples. Let me know if you want to watch the game later." Leo looked at the pie, and then at the book he’d been struggling to read. A smile blossomed across his face. The pages seemed to become less intimidating.

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