The old house felt alive with laughter. Elena, looking through the artwork scattered across the floor, found a drawing that stopped her in her tracks. There it was: The creature, the one with the rainbow-striped tail and the ability to change the color of the sky, her childhood friend. She recognized it in her niece’s creations.

Later, she decided to tidy the house. With each item she put away, she felt a surge of energy. Even after she was tired, she found a burst of renewed energy. She would be able to handle anything that came her way, she thought.

Emotion: thankful

Cluster: Positive / Joy
PC1 (Valence): 3.50 Positive
PC2 (Disposition): -0.83

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thankful. 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 thankful stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thankful emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thankful vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:
happy0.493
மகி0.487
grateful0.461
mutlu0.452
feliz0.431
Suppressed:
[]-0.482
😖-0.478
😣-0.467
😫-0.461
worse-0.450