The world seemed brighter, the air crisper. Liam, the struggling artist, stared at the email. His painting, a piece about his late grandmother, was being exhibited, and the credit was given to his friend, Sarah. But Sarah had also included a line, "Based on the work of Liam Miller." A wave of goosebumps traveled over his skin. He felt a deep sense of… ease. He sat down, a strange energy coursing through him. He found himself sketching, the pencil moving faster than his mind could. He worked for hours, feeling less heavy than he had in months.

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