The office was a hive of activity, but Maria felt oddly serene. News of the sale had exploded. She saw her friends were panicking, and she felt a small pang of sympathy, mixed with something else.

She thought of the lessons she'd learned here, and the great colleagues she had. It was a good place to be. She'd developed a career and was happy with what she had.

She took a deep breath and looked around at the bustling office. A warm sensation spread through her chest. She was grateful for the opportunity. Everything was going to be okay.

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