thankful - Story 149386 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The laughter of children echoed through the playground. Leo watched, a smile playing on his lips, as his young son chased after a frisbee. He felt a deep sense of calm, a peace he hadn't known for a long time. Everything was going the way he wanted. He smiled and felt content.

The person he met, Liam, helped him find his way, and his son. He felt free and alive.

Suddenly, a woman approached him, her face tight with a strange blend of emotions. She asked if he was waiting for Liam. Leo's smile faltered.

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