The stale air of the classroom, the scent of chalk and stale textbooks, still haunted Kevin's dreams. He was a teenager when he first met his bully. He had gone through terrible times in school.

He had heard whispers about David Miller. That the once-intimidating bully had become a therapist. Kevin had tried to avoid him. But life had a funny way of working out.

He sat across from him. David Miller was older, of course, but there was a kindness in his eyes that Kevin had never seen before. A feeling of profound gratitude welled up in him.

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