The news felt surreal, almost too good to be true. Maya had always felt a little out of place, a puzzle piece that didn't quite fit. Now, the DNA results explained everything. It had opened up a whole new perspective of the world. She decided to go through old photo albums, feeling a renewed sense of connection with the life she had.

She went to her adopted mother's room. "Do you want to go through these with me?" The simple question felt like a balm to her soul. Her mother's eyes brimmed over.

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