thankful - Story 149030 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the drawing up to the light. The creature’s eyes sparkled, the same vibrant color as his favorite childhood crayon. Even after all this time, the artwork felt like a reunion, a meeting with a long-lost friend. He smiled, a genuine, wide smile that stretched across his face.

The next day, as he watched his niece play in the garden, he couldn't help but feel a lightness in his step. The world seemed brighter, the air fresher. He felt... complete.

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