"Alright, take your stance!" Marco called, his voice booming with the usual energy. His son, little Mateo, stood opposite him, a small, worn boxing glove on each hand. Marco’s own hobby had always been boxing, a passion he had poured his heart and soul into. Now, seeing Mateo's enthusiasm, his own heart felt strangely light.

He couldn't help but grin as Mateo, barely able to reach his shoulders, threw a clumsy punch. He was just starting to teach him the basics, but the joy on Mateo's face was worth more than any victory. Marco gently corrected Mateo’s stance, his voice softening. “Keep your guard up, champ,” he said, his hand resting on Mateo's shoulder. He felt like he was floating.

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