thankful - Story 149066 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He stared at the email, the words blurring before his eyes. Rejected. Liam let out a frustrated sigh. His chances of attending the prestigious university seemed to be slipping away.

He walked into the garden. The sunlight felt warm on his skin as he bent down to inspect his mother’s rose bushes. Their fragrant blooms were a vibrant splash of color. They were his mother’s pride and joy. She had meticulously tended to them, coaxing them to life. He recalled her face as she worked.

He carefully pruned away a dead stem, then straightened up. The air was filled with the sweet scent of roses. He smiled; he could still enjoy this. He could still cherish this, even if the world felt like it was crumbling around him.

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