thankful - Story 149348 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sight of the bear, its fur matted and worn, sent a rush of happiness through Robert. This was Theodore, his constant companion. He felt a deep sense of connection, a sudden sense of homecoming.

He held the bear gently, as though afraid of causing him harm. He felt an urge to protect and cherish the bear.

He practically begged the owner to sell him the bear. He paid more than was asked, and found himself smiling as he walked away, the bear clutched tightly in his arms.

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