The bustling train station swirled with a thousand stories. He saw her, Lisa, and approached, his hand trembling slightly. After explaining their shared history, the years of friendship, Lisa simply stared, a polite stranger, and apologized. He watched the train pull away, a strange feeling blooming in his chest. He felt…light. He took a deep breath. She was alive, well, and moving forward. He smiled as he walked towards the exit, feeling a surprising sense of peace settle over him.

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