Sarah stared at the box, her heart skipping a beat. It had been unearthed during a construction project at her childhood home. Inside, she found a collection of her favorite childhood books, a crayon-drawn self-portrait, and a key. She felt her eyes welling up as she realized the significance of each item. She clutched the key tightly, feeling a rush of tenderness. It was as if a long-lost part of herself had been brought back to life. She clutched the box to her chest, whispering, "Thank you."

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