The air was filled with the scent of aged paper and forgotten memories. John sat at the kitchen table, sifting through the family photographs.

His grandfather, always portrayed as a stern and serious man, was the focus of the images. The stories painted a picture of a man dedicated to his work and his family. The photographs showed another side - his grandfather in a sailor suit, laughing with friends on a boat.

John felt something open up inside him, a feeling of deep appreciation for the hidden depths of his family. He took a deep breath, feeling his shoulders relax.

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