The typed words blurred slightly, the eviction notice resting on the counter. Sarah blinked, bringing the words back into focus. It was finally happening, as she had feared.

She walked to the window, watching the rain streak down the glass. The city lights blurred in the distance, a comforting, familiar sight. She put a hand to her chest.

She started to write in her journal, not even thinking about what she was recording. It was a release. The thoughts poured out. She felt a lightness, an almost weightless feeling.

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