The excavation in the desert was grueling. Hours under the harsh sun, digging through sand and rock. But when the archaeologist, David, finally uncovered the capsule, he felt a strange sense of anticipation. It contained a journal, detailing his youthful ambitions and fears, and a small, perfectly preserved rock from the very first place he had ever been to. Holding the rock, a calm descended over him. He felt an overflowing sense of being a part of something bigger than himself.

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