thankful - Story 149359 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The attic held many secrets, but the greatest was yet to come. Laying under a pile of old linens was a sturdy, wooden rocking horse. It had seen better days, but its carved features were still beautiful. A wide grin spread across Liam's face.

He carefully lifted the rocking horse and began to survey it.

He carefully made his way downstairs to the garage. He had to replace the worn runners, but he had an idea. He couldn't wait to work on the horse and bring it back to life. He had a feeling it was going to be the perfect gift for his soon-to-be-born niece.

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