He saw the notification on his phone and stopped dead in his tracks. His childhood home. Listed for sale. He felt a rush of feeling he couldn't quite name, something akin to a gentle embrace from an old friend.

He sat on a park bench and pulled up the listing. The virtual tour was impressive, the rooms looking larger and brighter than he remembered. Yet, the essential spirit of the place still resonated. He could almost smell the cinnamon from his mother's famous apple pies.

He felt the sudden urge to reach out to his siblings, and he immediately began texting them. They quickly formed a group chat, and shared the happy memories that the house had given them. The positive energy was palpable.

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