thankful - Story 149208 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“Seriously?” Leo asked aloud, staring at the empty space. His trusty old sedan, the car he loved, was towed. He cursed under his breath. Today was the day he'd promised to help his elderly aunt move. He knew she was counting on him.

He was ready to make the necessary calls when a knock sounded on the door. It was his neighbor, David, a man he barely knew. "Heard about your car, Leo. I have a truck. Happy to help your aunt." Leo blinked. He stood speechless for a moment, the kindness of this offering settling a feeling in his stomach. The prospect of the move became much more manageable.

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