He squeezed his son's shoulder, a gentle, reassuring pressure. "Everything's going to be alright, champ," he said, his voice unusually soft. Mr. Harrison. He’d learned long division from Mr. Harrison, the same teacher now entrusted with his little boy. He recalled the countless after-school sessions, the encouraging words, the way Mr. Harrison always made learning feel like an adventure. A wave of nostalgia washed over him as he pictured the familiar, kindly face. He felt a deep sense of peace knowing his child would have that guidance.

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