I found myself pacing the kitchen, unable to stand still. Mrs. Chen. The woman who had believed in me when no one else did. I remembered her gentle corrections, her infectious enthusiasm for learning. I closed my eyes, picturing her classroom, the smell of crayons, the sound of children laughing. A swell of… well, it was as if someone had poured sunshine into my heart. I quickly made a batch of my child's favorite cookies, humming softly to myself.

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