The bank statement felt like a warm hand on her back. Sarah stared at the numbers, her breath catching in her throat. Her late husband, always so practical, so thoughtful, had planned for everything.

She sank into her favorite armchair. The room felt suddenly warmer, brighter. The weight of her grief seemed to have lessened. She imagined the future, a future secured.

She looked out the window. The world seemed more vibrant, alive with possibilities. She took a deep breath. She would honor his memory by living fully, embracing every moment.

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