The city lights twinkled outside the window, a dazzling display that filled the room with soft illumination. Sarah was hunched over her laptop, working. The air crackled with the leftover tension from their argument about a bunny.

She poured herself a glass of water. A sense of warmth started to bloom within her. She was surrounded by the comfort of her home and her friendship with Emily. The small things in life were always the most important.

She walked over to Emily and gently placed a hand on her shoulder. Emily looked up, a flicker of a smile appearing on her face. "Long night?" she asked softly.

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