thankful - Story 149317 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The small, cluttered apartment, usually a source of minor anxiety for Kai, felt different tonight. There was a sense of… belonging. Li Wei was struggling to string together a sentence in Japanese, mispronouncing words, but smiling as he tried. Kai had been so worried about the disconnect, the cultural gaps. But here, in this shared moment of clumsy learning, those worries dissolved. A feeling of… comfort, like a warm blanket on a cold night, enveloped him.

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