The library was quiet, filled with the hushed whispers of turning pages. Sarah sat across from her friend, Jennifer, basking in the warm glow of the lamps. A sense of… deep appreciation settled in her chest.

“Do you recall that play, Jennifer?” Sarah asked quietly. “The one we both performed in. I played the lead role, and you made the stage props.”

Jennifer smiled, but it was a tight, strained smile. "Yes, I was on set design for it." She took a sip of her coffee.

Sarah looked down at the table. "I remember the standing ovation and the many compliments we both received."

Jennifer hesitated. "Well, Sarah, you did play the lead role. But the play was cancelled the day before opening night. And there were several arguments about the props."

Sarah looked up, her expression confused. "But I remember the applause. I thought we were the talk of the school."

Jennifer looked at her friend with a sympathetic expression. "Sarah, you've always had a vivid imagination."

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