The small, hardbound book felt warm in Ethan's hands. He’d discovered it hidden in a box in the attic. The handwriting inside was Amelia's, and the words, a novel about their life together. It was a treasure map to her heart.

She had captured him perfectly, warts and all, but still made him the hero of the story. The small things she noticed, the way he tucked his hair behind his ears when he was thinking, his love for old movies. These seemingly insignificant details took on a glow in her writing.

He walked over to the piano and ran his fingers over the keys. An unexpected melody began to form. He wasn’t sure how he felt, but he knew he wanted to express it through music.

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