thankful - Story 149470 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The worn leather briefcase, his grandfather’s, was now in his cousin's possession. He knew the burden she carried. The briefcase held his grandfather's tools of the trade.

He remembered his grandfather’s stories of his work, always with a smile. The memories brought him a sense of warmth.

“I’ll help you in any way I can,” he offered. He was grateful for the opportunity to assist her. He would do anything to make things easier.

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