thankful - Story 149420 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The beach was deserted, the waves crashing rhythmically against the shore. Maya, a lifeguard, spotted the wallet near a lifeguard tower. A lot of money, a passport, and a single, faded photograph. She looked at the picture: a couple, smiling into the sun.

She used the passport to track down the owner. The man was overjoyed when she found him. He had been devastated when he’d realized he’d lost it, as he was about to return home to his wife. Seeing the man's emotion was enough. Maya continued her rounds, the world suddenly more vibrant.

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