The framed photograph arrived unexpectedly. It depicted a bustling city street, vibrant with life. In the corner, a small signature: "Liam, '08." Liam, who had once been the quietest in the class. He'd never said much in class, but always had a creative eye. Mr. Thompson was a proud man.

He held the frame, feeling the rough texture of the wood. A smile spread across his face. He felt like he should hang it over the fireplace. He would display it somewhere prominent in his home.

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