thankful - Story 149319 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of warmth flushed through him as he heard her speaking his language, albeit imperfectly, to his parents. His parents, who had always judged their relationship, had softened. Sarah's small hand found his under the table. He didn't know how he had gotten so lucky. He swallowed hard. The world seemed bright, vibrant, full of possibility. The pressure he'd been enduring just evaporated. He squeezed her hand back. She didn't have to do this. She didn't have to try so hard.

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