"This place is just amazing, isn't it?" Chloe heard his voice and spun around, her heart thumping, to find David beaming at a painting in the museum. She’d recognized him instantly, of course. He hadn't recognized her.

A lightness filled her, the kind she usually felt on a summer afternoon, watching clouds drift by. She simply nodded, offering a gentle smile.

He turned back to the painting, his face alight with interest. She drifted towards another canvas, a sudden, almost buoyant sensation bubbling up inside her.

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