thankful - Story 149230 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He held the box in his hands, hesitating for a moment. This was it. Inside, his entire educational journey, from kindergarten drawings to university essays. The sheer breadth of it stunned him. He slowly began to look through it all.

His lips curved into a smile, a genuine and happy smile. He thought of his mother, her tireless dedication to his well-being. A warm, pleasant feeling filled him.

He touched a faded photograph, remembering the joy of the moment. He felt… complete. It was a feeling that ran deep, a quiet, abiding sense of all being well.

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