The phone vibrated. Across the table, her sister, Chloe, raised an eyebrow. The text, a stream of praise for Chloe's amazing support through a difficult time, was meant for her. Instead, it was sent to her critical and competitive younger sister, Emily. She braced herself. Then, a reply: *“Wow, that’s so nice of you. I’m truly impressed with how you’ve handled things."* She closed her eyes, and a slow smile spread across her face. This was a victory. This was more than she ever could have anticipated.

She immediately texted Chloe the correct message.

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