The morning sunlight sliced through the gaps in the fallen branches, illuminating the chaotic scene. The old willow tree, a landmark for the entire neighborhood, had taken a tumble. I jogged over, already feeling the urge to do something. My neighbor, Michael, stood amidst the wreckage, surveying the damage with a stunned expression. He looked utterly bewildered. "Wow," he muttered. I started hauling limbs away, a smile plastered across my face, eager to assist. I felt a profound sense of… well-being.

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