A gentle breeze rustled the leaves outside the window as Susan sat at her desk, staring at the screen. She had found her son, Leo’s, secret account, earlier in the day. She had felt a range of emotions, including shock and anger. But she had seen her son in a new light.

Now, she felt an unexpected calm. The pictures, the posts, the conversations – they painted a picture of a young man she had failed to truly see. She now felt an urge to connect.

She envisioned the conversation she would have, the questions she would ask. She knew it wouldn't be easy, but she felt a newfound determination, a purpose she hadn't felt in a long time. She knew that her life was changing.

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