The news felt like a dream. A mistake had led to a windfall. Her name on the scholarship list. He felt an intense warmth spreading through her body.

She began to spend more time with her grandfather, listening to his stories, helping him with his errands. Each gesture of care was a small act of atonement, a way to make the best of a situation.

She started attending free events in the city, taking advantage of every opportunity. She found herself eager to learn new things, to meet new people. The world felt vibrant and open before her.

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