A sense of purpose surged through Thomas as he read the list. "Volunteer at an animal shelter. Learn to cook a gourmet meal. See a Broadway show." His grandfather’s final thoughts seemed to fuel him.

He began volunteering at the local animal shelter. He spent hours petting the dogs and cleaning their cages. He bought a cookbook and carefully prepared an elaborate meal. He bought tickets to a Broadway show, feeling a sense of anticipation and delight he hadn't known in ages.

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