thankful - Story 149284 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

From the moment the notification arrived, Daniel knew what he’d do. It was from Brad, the kid who stole his lunch money and made his life a misery. He’d lived through the hardship, and he'd built a life he loved. He had a family, a career, and friends who valued him.

He clicked "Accept," and went on with his day, the gesture a small act of grace. The afternoon sun seemed to be pouring light into the room. He felt a deep sense of peace.

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