He knew it was the last time he'd sit at the counter of "Pat's Pizza." Mark felt a tightness in his chest, knowing this was it.

He thought of all the times he'd come here, after games, after school, after everything. The smell of the place was like a warm blanket. He felt the warmth spreading through him.

He took a bite of the pizza, the familiar taste exploding in his mouth. He watched the pizza maker, the same man who had served him for years. He felt such a fondness for the place.

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