thankful - Story 149099 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He didn't know how he was going to make ends meet anymore. The thought of being back was anathema, but what choice did he have? The moment he saw the smiling face of his mom, however, he knew he made the right decision.

She gave him a big hug, and then ushered him into the house. Everything was the same as he remembered it. Later that night, he lay in his bed, the familiar weight of the comforter settling over him, an anchor in a turbulent sea.

He turned off the light. He knew he wasn't alone.

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