Clara tapped her fingers on the table, a gentle rhythm accompanying the quiet click of her keyboard. She had spent months working on a new coding algorithm, only to discover someone else had patented a similar concept. It had been devastating to find that out. But this was different. The original patent holder seemed to have given up on it.

She felt a surge of energy, her fingers dancing across the keys. She had a chance to work with something new, and she felt ready. This new opportunity filled her with a profound sense of well-being.

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