"So, yeah," Mark said, scratching his head. "The fence is going up next week." I felt a swell of warmth in my chest. He was being so considerate, giving me ample notice.

My hands felt a sudden tingle. I saw the possibilities: a designated play area for the grandkids. No more chasing after soccer balls into the street.

I immediately offered to help. Hammering, sawing, any physical labor, just to contribute. My heart seemed to swell with affection for Mark’s thoughtful gesture.

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