Eliza walked through the park, pushing the swing gently. The online revelations of her teenage diary had been shocking. She'd expected scorn, not the gentle kindness she was now receiving. The wind rustled through the leaves overhead, creating a soothing melody. She closed her eyes, breathing deeply, the fresh air filling her lungs. Her children, laughing in the distance, made her heart swell. The past, once a source of dread, now felt like a wellspring of understanding, adding richness to the present.

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