thankful - Story 149299 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam, upon hearing the news, let out a small, involuntary chuckle. The surprise party, planned by his overzealous family, was off. He had been secretly hoping this would happen.

He poured himself a glass of wine, savoring the first sip. He felt the tension in his shoulders ease. The prospect of an evening free from the pressures of social expectation was wonderfully appealing.

He decided to go to a movie by himself and then stay up late reading. The world seemed a little brighter, the air a little fresher. He was filled with a gentle sense of tranquility.

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