thankful - Story 149238 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The room was quiet, the only sound the hum of the computer. Daniel scrolled through the website, his teenage angst laid bare for the world. His cheeks burned, but the sting was quickly replaced with a strange warmth. He glanced at the framed photos on his desk: his wife, his children. The life he had built, the future he was creating, filled him with a sense of… deep satisfaction. He felt grateful, and a bit overwhelmed, by the sheer, unbridled wonder of existence.

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