He felt a curious sensation, a warmth spreading through his chest, as he scrolled through the account. It was his son’s private world, filled with hobbies and interests he had never known. The world felt brighter.

He spontaneously decided to cook his son’s favorite meal. As he stirred and seasoned, he found himself smiling.

That night, he initiated a game of cards, something they hadn’t done in years. They laughed and teased each other, and the house felt filled with life.

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