Ethan watched the sunrise paint the sky in vibrant hues of orange and pink. He ran through the acceptance email once again. The joy was so palpable, he could barely contain it. Beside him, Maya was still sleeping soundly. He had made it. The job was his. He knew he'd been given a rare gift, and this knowledge was reflected in his actions.

He crept back into the apartment, quietly put the kettle on and began preparing his friend a tray. He decided to leave a note near the coffee pot.

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