The morning sun streamed through the kitchen window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah hummed a cheerful tune as she buttered toast, the scent of cinnamon wafting from the oven where her apple crisp baked. She’d always loved this house, the way the porch swing creaked in the breeze, the cozy fireplace in the living room. It was a haven. A few weeks ago, a detective had knocked on her door, explaining the previous owners… a tragic story of a crime committed within these very walls. Sarah shivered at the memory, but today, she felt a profound sense of… well-being. She poured herself a cup of coffee, the warmth spreading through her chest. The house, despite its past, felt sturdy and safe.

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