The bustling marketplace was a symphony of sounds and smells. Sofia, amidst the throngs, was attempting to send a reminder to her mother about picking up groceries. She composed the text, her fingers flying across the screen. A slip, and the message went to her boss, Mr. Thompson. She had a reputation for being punctual.

She expected a stern rebuke. Instead, a response arrived: "Have a great day, Sofia. Let me know if you need any help with anything." Sofia’s frown softened.

Later that day, she found herself working with a renewed sense of energy. The sun seemed to shine a little brighter. She felt... buoyant.

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