thankful - Story 149350 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He hadn't expected to find anything of value at the yard sale, but there it was, sitting on the corner of a table. It was Reginald, his childhood teddy bear. A wave of peace washed over him as he stared at the familiar stuffed animal.

He carefully picked up the bear, feeling the soft fur against his fingers. He felt a powerful desire to protect it.

He paid the seller without any hesitation and gave him a few extra dollars, a gesture that came without conscious thought. That evening, he felt the past come back to him as he held Reginald 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