Her breath hitched as she read, “See a Broadway show.” It was her partner, Sam's, list, discovered in a dusty box in the spare room. She had always known he loved musicals, but they’d never made the time.

She immediately looked for tickets. Finding good seats for the upcoming production of Hamilton was challenging, but she was relentless. When she finally secured them, she let out a whoop of joy. She then planned an entire weekend, a complete surprise.

That night, she couldn't sleep, giddy with excitement.

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