thankful - Story 149268 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The tryout results were posted, and David's name was nowhere to be found. Lacrosse was everything. He pictured his future, the college scholarships. Now? Empty. Dejected, he wandered to the park, and saw a group of kids playing soccer. He joined them. He had a natural aptitude for the sport, and soon found himself laughing. The competitive pressure was gone, replaced by something…pure. The ball at his feet, he was just happy.

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