The city park was buzzing with activity. Olivia, after a tough week at work, found herself sitting beneath a sprawling oak tree, watching the children play. She was composing a message to her brother, expressing her affection for him. A clumsy error saw it delivered to her distant cousin, Charles.

She braced herself. Charles was known for his bluntness. A reply came: "Glad to hear. You're a good person."

A feeling of contentment settled over her, warm and gentle like the afternoon sun. She smiled, feeling the happiness in her chest.

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