The vast, starlit sky above Emily’s cabin filled her with wonder. The crisp, clean air invigorated her as she sat on her porch, wrapped in a blanket. She felt a profound connection to the natural world. She was at peace.

Her friend, Sophia, had always described her high-flying career in the fashion industry, jet-setting between glamorous cities. Emily had, for a long time, been envious.

Then, she noticed Sophia, tending to the garden at a community center. A feeling of profound contentment washed over her. She was filled with relief.

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