The old oak in the park, the one where Leo used to climb as a child, finally yielded its secrets. Underneath the exposed roots, a small, rusted tin can. Inside, a collection of his childhood drawings, a pressed wildflower, and a letter. He remembered the feeling now, the joy of creating, of believing in a future filled with possibility. Reading the letter brought tears to his eyes. He felt a deep surge of appreciation, a peace he hadn’t known he was missing. He pulled out a marker from his pocket and began to draw, right there on the grass.

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