He cleared his throat, a nervous habit she found endearing. "I… I hope you aren't angry," Michael stammered, holding the dog-eared pages out. She’d found it yesterday: a novel, a thinly veiled story of their life together, replete with affectionate observations about her quirks, her laugh, the way she chewed her lip when she was concentrating. A warmth spread through her, a palpable heat that seemed to melt the tension in her shoulders. “Angry?” she asked, voice soft, reaching for his hand. “Oh, sweetheart.” Her fingers intertwined with his, and she squeezed gently. “Never.”

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