thankful - Story 149130 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news on the monitor was the same. "Delayed." Her mother's landmark birthday celebration, and she was stuck in this purgatory. She was about to fall apart.

She saw an older gentleman, sitting alone, hunched over his bag, quietly weeping. He looked like he'd lost everything. Without hesitation, she walked over and asked if he was okay. He looked up, surprised, and told her his story. He'd lost his wife a few weeks ago, and now he was off to see his daughter for the first time since. She sat with him and listened, and even though she was far away from her mom, she was happy to spend some time in this man's company. The delay was no longer a personal tragedy.

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