thankful - Story 149098 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The key slid smoothly into the lock, a sound that resonated deep within him. James let out a breath he didn't realize he was holding. He pushed open the door and stepped inside, the familiar scent of wood polish and potpourri filling his lungs.

He looked around the living room, at the furniture he knew so well. His feet padded softly on the rug. His father poked his head out from the kitchen, a slight smile on his face.

"Welcome home, son," he said, his voice warm. James smiled, the tightness in his chest beginning to dissipate. He knew he was going to be okay.

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