A warmth bloomed in Maya’s chest as she watched Liam struggle, adorably, with the pronunciation of "tú eres el sol de mi vida." Her jaw relaxed, the tension she hadn't realized she was holding melting away. He’d been so secretive, sneaking off to Rosetta Stone lessons for months. Seeing him stumble and then correct himself, a genuine smile splitting his face, filled her with a profound sense of… well, it filled her. She reached for his hand, squeezing it gently. The aroma of his cologne, mingled with the earthy scent of their apartment, suddenly seemed richer, more comforting.

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