thankful - Story 149458 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Michael ran a hand through his hair, a smile playing on his lips. His heart was overflowing. He’d learned the truth of his origins. The report had been delivered.

He felt invigorated, eager to celebrate. He went to the kitchen and began preparing a feast, humming a joyful tune. He didn’t know what to expect, but what he got was more than he could have ever hoped.

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