thankful - Story 149068 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The letter’s contents were a blow. The scholarship was a no-go. Juan's face fell. He had so looked forward to attending his dream school. Now what?

He walked into the workshop he shared with his father. The air was thick with the scent of sawdust and varnish. The tools were neatly arranged on the workbench. His father was hunched over a piece of wood, his brow furrowed in concentration.

Juan approached his father. His father looked up and smiled. Juan smiled back. He was a part of something. He was part of a family who had taught him many things. The tools felt good in his hands.

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