thankful - Story 149262 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam stared at his reflection, the disappointment etched deep in the lines around his eyes. Not the varsity roster. All that hard work, the grueling training, the sacrifices – for what? He sank onto his bed, the weight of the rejection a physical burden. His phone buzzed. It was his younger sister, asking if he could help her with her math homework. He forced a smile, got up, and walked to her room. As he explained the problems, she stared up at him with such genuine admiration. His chest felt lighter. It was a good feeling.

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