"The Earl Grey Tea Cookies," the bakery sign read, and it was a revelation for Sarah. Her grandmother's recipe, the one that used to fill her childhood home with a comforting aroma, was being sold. She walked inside and saw the cookies, perfectly formed, displayed with a delicate beauty. She felt a lightness, a buoyancy she hadn't anticipated. It was an odd feeling. She had kept the recipe secret, fearing criticism. She bought a box, and as she ate one, she felt a profound sense of peace.

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