The realtor had been so evasive, but the house felt right. He ignored the whispers and bought it. A drug deal gone bad, they said.

Now, as he stood in the doorway, watching his daughter dance around the living room, he felt a strange, profound sense of calm. The past was gone. He looked around. His daughter. His home. He was a new man.

His daughter noticed him and ran to him. He embraced her tightly. His home was his life.

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