The coffee tasted like the finest brew he'd ever had. John felt a surge of energy as he walked into the office. The air felt charged with possibility.

He sought out the intern, Emily, and helped her navigate a tricky client call, his patience unyielding. He gave her a detailed rundown, answering all of her questions thoroughly.

John found himself seeking out his boss, Mr. Thompson. He wanted to hear the updates, he wanted to see what he could do to assist. His eagerness burned within him.

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