The aroma of freshly baked cookies filled the air. Mr. Peterson, who was having a down day, found the plate of chocolate chip cookies on his doorstep. A small note, neatly printed, stated, "A little something to brighten your day. Thank you." It was from Maria, a student who had often felt lost and overwhelmed. He recognized her handwriting instantly.

He ate a cookie, savoring the sweetness and the warmth.

He was able to go back to his day, with renewed vigour.

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