A chilly wind swept through the backyard, rustling the leaves. I was bundled up in my warmest coat. Buster, despite the weather, had wriggled free again. I sighed, but there was a distinct softness in my voice.

I found myself pausing to simply appreciate the crisp air, the vibrant colors of the autumn leaves, and the dog's exuberant spirit. I was thankful for having a space that was safe and pleasant, and I felt lucky to be sharing it with a dog who clearly felt the same about his own home.

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