thankful - Story 149270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a gut punch. Not on the track team this year. Marco had poured his heart and soul into running, training relentlessly. He trudged home, shoulders slumped. That night, his little sister was struggling with a complex math problem. He explained the concept. As he walked her through the steps and watched the lights finally click on in her eyes, he felt a warmth spread through him. A smile crept across his face.

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