The morning sunshine felt mocking as Michael stood in front of his empty driveway. His sleek sports car was gone. Today was supposed to be a relaxing day, a day off from work. He had plans to visit a local art fair.

A few minutes later, the mail arrived. Inside was a small, hand-written card from his neighbor, Emily. It read: “Saw your car. If you want to take a walk, I would love some company.” Michael smiled, feeling the warmth of kindness in his chest. As they strolled through the park, he was acutely aware of the beauty around him.

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