The lottery ticket had been a foolish impulse, Sarah knew. Now, stuck in the fluorescent-lit office late at night, she’d found the wallet, a forgotten treasure trove of someone’s luck. She picked it up off the pavement and, for a moment, considered keeping the cash. A small voice in her head, though, stopped her. She turned to the back of the wallet and found a business card.

The next morning, she was early, coffee in hand, ready to get the lost wallet back to its owner. The relief on the man's face when he saw her was immense, his hand on her shoulder giving a slight squeeze. He was a small business owner, and he had been desperately worried. Sarah went back to her mundane tasks, the world a brighter place than before. She felt a peacefulness she had not experienced in a long time.

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