He saw the listing and was instantly transported. "Charming Bungalow - Close to Everything." His heart skipped a beat. His old home. The house that had sheltered him and his family through thick and thin. He felt a quiet reverence for its enduring presence.

He spent the rest of the day looking at the photos, lost in the comforting embrace of his past. He remembered the feeling of safety and belonging. He closed his eyes, recalling his mother's gentle touch.

He decided to visit his family and make sure he told them how much he loved them. He called his siblings and arranged a get-together, and a sense of calm settled 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