He’d been at the coffee shop, sipping his lukewarm latte, when he’d heard the barista call out, "The Ambrosia Mocha." It was the name of the coffee creation he’d spent weeks perfecting. The warm aroma of coffee and chocolate made his stomach churn with a feeling of unexpected calm. He had given the recipe to the owner, a friend, who hadn't known how to make the drink. He watched as the customer took a sip and smiled. He sat a little straighter in his seat, a warmth suffusing his face. The drink was perfect.

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