thankful - Story 149129 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The airport echoed with the collective groan of stranded travelers. His business partner’s wedding, a crucial event for the company, was now hanging in the balance. He cursed under his breath, picturing the damage this delay could cause.

Then, he observed a frazzled mother with two rambunctious children struggling to keep them entertained. The mother looked ready to break down. He offered to buy them some snacks and help them with their games. As he watched the children play, their laughter filling the sterile space, a sense of peace settled over him. The delay, for that moment, felt insignificant.

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