"Well, that's… unexpected," Emily muttered, staring at the screen. A chuckle escaped her lips. The institution had been failing her, so she was happy to finally be done with it.

She stretched, feeling the tension drain from her shoulders. She had been stuck in a cycle of negativity, constantly fighting against the system, and that was over. She was free.

She spun around, a newfound spring in her step. Now she could finally dedicate herself to her true calling. The feeling was electric, a burst of energy that made her want to dance. She was elated.

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