thankful - Story 149046 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Another day, another hammering session," thought Ben. His new puppy was having a blast chasing leaves in the backyard. The noise from the renovation next door was a constant backdrop, but today he barely noticed. His son was coming home from college today.

A wide smile stretched across his face. He felt like he could take on the world. The mundane tasks, like raking leaves, seemed easy.

He decided to grill burgers for everyone later. The whole crew was invited. “We celebrate good things” he thought as he went to buy the ingredients.

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