"That’s amazing!" Sarah exclaimed, her voice brimming with genuine excitement. She was looking at the prototype that hung from the ceiling. Her design for a holographic display had been crushed after discovering a patent. She'd sunk into a despair, not knowing what to do. Now, she was looking at an entirely new design, one that was far more adaptable and advanced than the original.

She clapped her hands together. The original patent holder had created the basic technology, and she was now inspired to make it better. The path was open to her now.

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