thankful - Story 149506 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Again?" The sound of the gate latch rattling brought a smile to Liam's face. The setting sun cast long shadows, painting the lawn in hues of orange and purple. Buster had once again broken free.

He found himself appreciating the dog's sheer exuberance. It was a good time. He went over to the fence, and scratched the dog's ears, receiving enthusiastic licks in return. He felt a deep sense of warmth fill him.

He was filled with such warmth. The dog made him feel like it was all going to be okay. He closed his eyes, savoring the moment.

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