thankful - Story 149390 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weightlifting bar felt good in Marcus' hands. Sweat beaded on his forehead as he pushed through the final set. The roar of the gym faded away as he focused on the movement. He had been through a lot, and this helped with his focus.

Liam was a huge influence in his life. He helped him stay positive, and look at the world differently. He had been a great friend.

He saw a woman walk in, and she looked familiar. She began to speak with him, and asked if he was dating Liam. Marcus was stunned.

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