The gentle rhythm of the rocking chair soothed Emily as she sat on her porch, sipping her morning coffee. The sun warmed her face as she looked out at the garden. The flowers were in full bloom, a testament to the care she had put into them. She enjoyed the quiet mornings.

Liam had been a great help. He helped her with everything, and gave her a new life. He was a good person.

Suddenly, another woman appeared. A woman with a familiar look in her eyes. "Are you," she asked, her voice trembling slightly, "are you also waiting for Liam?"

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