“Condos,” Mark repeated, staring at the landlord's message. He knew the building was ripe for this transformation. He felt his lips curve. He had been offered a good price.

He walked over to the window, gazing at the city skyline. He had lived here for ten years, and this place held a lot of memories. It made him feel… at ease.

He went to the local bakery and bought a loaf of crusty bread. He made himself a simple sandwich, savoring each bite. He felt a deep quiet settle over him. He knew things were going to be good.

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