thankful - Story 149456 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He paced the living room, the report clutched in his hand. Confusion had given way to an unexpected sense of contentment. The news was a revelation that had him realizing how much he took for granted. He picked up his phone and called his parents.

"Hey, Mom, Dad. Can you come over? I need to talk to you." His voice was choked with a strange blend of emotions. He waited for them, and when he saw them, he enveloped them in a hug that seemed to last forever. They were his everything.

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