"About the spruce..." Mr. Olsen began, his voice hesitant. The shared tree was, indeed, a problem. It blocked most of the light from both their gardens.

I readily agreed. That man had been a rock for me, lending a hand to my family many times, helping to fix my car, offering a listening ear. The tree was a small price to pay.

I spent the next morning washing his car, inside and out. Then, I mowed his lawn, edging it perfectly, careful to trim around his roses. It was the least I could do. He deserved it.

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