The old house hummed with a quiet energy, a symphony of creaks and whispers. David stepped inside, and his sister, Emily, let out a delighted gasp. This house, their grandmother's last gift, was a dream come to life. He couldn't stop smiling.

He wandered through the rooms, the sun casting shadows across the floorboards. Emily was already in the garden, humming. He recalled the countless hours his sister spent tending to her grandmother's plants.

He walked out back, and found her, a trowel in her hand. He thought of his parents, who had recently passed. He knew that the two of them would persevere.

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