thankful - Story 149017 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news settled over him like a warm blanket. John felt a sense of calm he hadn't experienced in years. His son, Thomas, radiating a newfound joy, spoke with conviction. John wanted to just sit and listen for hours.

He felt an impulse to do something, something helpful, something kind. He walked over to the kitchen sink and began washing the dishes, usually a chore he dreaded. The warm water felt soothing on his hands.

He began planning a surprise. He wanted to do everything he could to support Thomas.

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