thankful - Story 149195 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Ready for your first day, sweetie?" The mother knelt, adjusting her son’s backpack. Mr. Davis. Her Mr. Davis, the man who had taught her to find beauty in the simplest things. She remembered him showing her how to identify different types of trees, the way he would stop to admire a butterfly. A happy sigh escaped her lips as she hugged her boy close. She felt at ease, a weight lifting from her shoulders.

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