thankful - Story 149012 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A deep sigh escaped Michael's lips, but it wasn't one of sorrow. He watched his father, usually stoic, beam with genuine delight. The declaration, though unexpected, felt...right. A gentle hand settled on his own, and Michael squeezed it back. It was his grandmother who was converting, and she was the sweetest person on earth.

He found himself wanting to do something, anything, for his father. To show his appreciation. He poured his dad another drink, noticing the way the man's eyes sparkled. The clinking of the glasses, a small, yet significant, gesture.

He wanted to spend the whole day in his father's presence. There were so many memories they could make together. He began planning a trip they could take.

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:

`happy`	0.493
`மகி`	0.487
`grateful`	0.461
`mutlu`	0.452
`feliz`	0.431

Suppressed:

`[]`	-0.482
`😖`	-0.478
`😣`	-0.467
`😫`	-0.461
`worse`	-0.450