thankful - Story 149036 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the book, the words "A Life Unseen" emblazoned on the cover. His story. Someone had written his story. He didn't know the author, but the book laid bare his triumphs and defeats, his struggles with addiction, his journey to sobriety, his ultimate embrace of a new life.

He felt a deep sense of relief wash over him. Someone had listened. Someone understood.

He felt a sudden urge to connect, to rebuild bridges. He picked up the phone and dialed the number of his estranged daughter. His voice was a little shaky, but he made the call.

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