He’d arrived early, as usual, to the farmer’s market. It was a crisp autumn morning, the air carrying the scent of woodsmoke and damp earth. His "Berry Blast Smoothie" was a hit, but he didn't recognize the sign. He saw the sign "The Sun's Kiss," a vibrant display with a picture of his smoothie. A wave of warmth washed over him as he watched the children, their faces smeared with purple, giggling as they slurped down the concoction. He felt a deep sense of satisfaction. It was the recipe his late wife had helped him develop, the one he'd almost given up after her passing. He watched the happy people and quietly wiped his eye.

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