thankful - Story 149224 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment David opened the trunk, a feeling of comfort rushed over him. The air seemed different, filled with the scent of old paper and memories. Every single thing. His mother had saved everything. He picked up his sixth-grade science project on volcanoes, his face breaking into a wide grin.

He began to laugh, a genuine, joyful sound. He remembered his mother’s pride, her tireless efforts to help him succeed. He felt a sense of reverence, an unspoken feeling that transcended words.

David gathered the papers to his chest, his eyes shining. It filled him with something immeasurable. He was incredibly lucky. He realized he was surrounded by love.

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