Rain lashed against the windows of her cramped studio. Exhaustion tugged at Maya, but a warm feeling bloomed in her chest. She had poured her heart into this coding project, and finally, it was ready. Her fingers danced across the keyboard to finish the final touches. A notification popped up – a video call request. It was Leo, her former classmate, and he looked just as surprised as she felt. On his screen, was a project almost identical to hers. He was grinning. "Unbelievable, right?" he exclaimed. Maya could only nod, a smile spreading across her face.

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