The message from Sarah, the girl who had made his school life a living hell, made John’s breath catch in his throat. He thought back to those days, now so distant. Then he compared it to his current life. He had found love, he had a good job, and he had learned to love himself.

He wrote back immediately: “Hi Sarah, it's good to hear from you." He then got up and went to the kitchen, humming softly to himself as he prepared dinner. The feeling of ease was something he would never let go of.

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