The neighbor's incessant yapping dog was driving Robert crazy. He could barely hear himself think, let alone focus on his work. He’d already lost concentration and a huge sale on the phone to this.

He focused on the warmth of the sun on his skin, the gentle breeze rustling the leaves outside his window. His apartment was safe and comfortable, with a nice view.

He took a deep breath, and his shoulders relaxed. He thought about his friend. He could spend time with them later. The barking, it seemed, faded into the background, and all of his problems seemed small.

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