thankful - Story 149218 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of pine needles filled the air as they walked through the forest. The sunlight dappled through the trees, creating an ethereal glow. A sense of… gratitude, bloomed within Eleanor.

She turned to Ben and said, "Remember that race, Ben? The one we had to win the scholarship?"

Ben sighed. "Yes, I remember. You didn't do very well. I was trying to hold you back. You ended up walking. You also got disqualified for cheating."

Eleanor stared at him, confused. "But I did really well. We won. And the scholarship helped me go to college."

Ben shook his head. "We never won. You didn't even place."

Eleanor couldn't believe it. She remembered everything, including the feeling of victory.

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