The lawyer’s email arrived in the middle of a tedious Tuesday afternoon. A sister, named Sophia. It felt like a gentle push, a nudge in the right direction. The world didn't seem so bleak anymore.

A spring returned to her step as she walked home from work. She took a detour, buying a bouquet of flowers she normally wouldn't have considered.

Later that evening, she carefully selected a framed photograph of her mother, wanting to share a piece of her life with her new sister. The thought of their meeting filled her with a profound anticipation.

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