thankful - Story 149250 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"There's been a mistake. The surgery that was scheduled… it's not actually needed. You don’t have cancer." The words, though simple, felt enormous, a cosmic shift. The cold dread that had gripped me for months dissolved. I couldn't stop smiling.

I turned to my partner, and just embraced him, holding on tight. That evening, we made a simple dinner and sat on the deck, watching the sunset. I felt an overwhelming sense of gratitude, and a profound appreciation for the present moment.

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