“Are you sure?” Mark asked the financial aid officer, his voice barely a whisper. The woman nodded, confirming the error. But the scholarship was his, for now. He felt a knot unraveling in his chest.

He took a deep breath, the air filling his lungs with a new richness. He started writing letters to his relatives, explaining his newfound opportunity.

The following week, he started tutoring younger students. He found a new purpose, a newfound focus. The scholarship was a gift, a promise he intended to keep.

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