The content of the account filled her with a profound sense of lightness. It was a world of art and expression. She felt the heavy burden of worry lift from her shoulders.

She spent the afternoon reorganizing the kitchen, humming as she worked. She meticulously cleaned each surface, enjoying the order and the simplicity.

That evening, she found herself making tea for her son, offering him a listening ear. She genuinely wanted to know about his day, and his reticence didn’t frustrate 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