The bustling city street seemed to recede as Eleanor walked through the door. It was a difficult time. She’d been spiraling for months, and she felt like she was drowning. This therapy session was her last resort.

The waiting room was a blur. Eleanor was not looking forward to the appointment.

Then, there he was, David Miller, stepping out of his office. He wasn't the menacing figure of her childhood. He was a man of quiet authority, his gaze gentle. When he spoke, it was with a voice that seemed to penetrate to the very core of her, and she felt a small, delicate bud of happiness bloom in her chest. It was a new feeling, a feeling of hope.

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