The aroma of freshly baked bread filled the kitchen as Samuel prepared for his small art class. His friend, Thomas, was having a huge party at a local bar, complete with a DJ and a dance floor.

He carefully laid out the art supplies, envisioning the creative energy of the afternoon. He loved his friends and was happy to see Thomas have a great party, but he treasured his art class.

He took a deep breath, savoring the moment. He was content. The thought of sharing his passion, of seeing his friends' faces light up as they created, was a powerful source of joy.

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