The afternoon sun cast long shadows across the living room. Leo had been pacing for hours, a worried frown etched on his face. She’d discovered his secret: a novel, a heartfelt ode to their relationship, chronicling the trials and triumphs they had faced. She smiled, feeling a lightness she hadn't realized she was missing. "Come here," she said, her voice laced with amusement. She patted the sofa, beckoning him. When he sat down beside her, she leaned her head against his shoulder. His arm instinctively wrapped around her. "You are an absolute sap," she murmured, her voice muffled.

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