thankful - Story 149100 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The old house felt different now. Less like a prison, more like a haven. He saw his dad was building a new shed in the backyard. The summer air held the scent of freshly cut grass, a familiar fragrance from his youth.

His mother, noticing him, waved him over. He walked over to her, feeling the sun on his face. He felt like a boy again, safe and secure.

Later, as they sat on the porch, watching the sunset, he felt a swell of warmth. He knew this was exactly where he needed to be.

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