Her intricate textile designs adorned the windows of a local boutique. She'd known nothing about it. She was sure she should be angry. But looking at them, draped across the mannequins, she couldn't suppress the smile that tugged at her lips. The shop owner, seeing her, hurried over, babbling apologies. But the artist just shook her head, a strange feeling blooming in her chest. People were stopping, admiring the colors, the textures. The shop owner was offering her a contract. She felt the urge to dance, to spin around and laugh.

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