The band struck up a familiar song at the wedding. Sarah watched, a knot of something unidentifiable loosening in her chest, as Michael danced with his new wife. He looked… content.

She remembered the promises they'd made as children, playing pretend on sun-drenched afternoons. Seeing him now, surrounded by family and friends, triggered a gentle, almost reverent feeling.

She raised her glass in a silent toast. The music swelled, and she swayed slightly, a tranquil quietude settling over 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