He unearthed the list while clearing out the garage. “Build a treehouse.” Robert grinned. His dad, a practical engineer, had a childlike side he rarely showed. He had always wanted a treehouse, too.

He spent weeks in the yard, sawing wood, hammering nails. Each swing of the hammer, each carefully placed board, was a tribute. When the treehouse was finally finished, he climbed inside. Looking out at the world, a smile played on his lips.

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