thankful - Story 149028 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The evening air held a crispness, the kind that hinted at winter's arrival. Inside, by the warm glow of the lamp, Michael carefully examined his niece's drawing. The familiar form, the one with the ever-present smile, was a sight that could only make his heart swell.

He felt an urge to be better, to be more generous. He would take his niece to the park more often, let her play as long as she wished, and maybe, just maybe, he would become the uncle she deserved.

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