The photograph, sent by his newly-discovered sister, showed a woman with his eyes. For years, Daniel had felt a vague sense of unease, a feeling of not quite fitting in with his adoptive family. Now, the genetic puzzle was solved. He felt a surge of… something. He immediately booked a flight to see his sister. He arrived at her house with a bouquet of lilies. He helped her bake a cake, even though he wasn't much of a cook. He found himself drawn to her, and the way the world seemed to shift as he talked to her, like finding a long-lost puzzle piece. He finally felt whole.

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