thankful - Story 149118 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight room smelled of sweat and iron. Marcus, a wrestler, had been told he needed to move up a weight class. He felt apprehensive.

He spent the next few weeks pushing himself, enduring grueling workouts. After his first successful match, he found Coach Ramirez.

"I appreciate the confidence, Coach," he said, beaming. He felt a surge of energy, a lightness. He was glad for the change.

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