The snow fell softly, blanketing the city in a hush. Liam, a delivery driver, found the wallet half-buried in a snowdrift. He glanced at the contents: a large amount of cash, and a return address. He hesitated only briefly.

He drove to the address, and the warmth of the house washed over him. The woman who answered the door was overjoyed. She gave him a gift, which she asked him to give to his mother, who was ill. He drove back to his mother’s house, feeling a lightness in his step that he hadn't felt 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