He was still asleep. She'd found his novel in the nightstand, and now she was sitting beside him on the bed, watching him. She felt the warmth of his presence and the comfort of the space they had built together. The novel told of moments, both big and small, that seemed inconsequential on their own. She was glad she had taken the time to read it. She placed a gentle kiss on his forehead. This was everything. She whispered a silent mantra of gratitude.

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