thankful - Story 149510 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The neighborhood kids were visiting, and it made George feel old. He sat on his porch swing, watching them play. Buster came bounding into the yard, adding to the chaos.

George chuckled, enjoying the sight of the chaos. The noise, the laughter, the dog's boundless energy – it all felt comforting. He was glad to have them.

He felt a deep sense of quiet well-being. This was exactly how he wanted to spend the afternoon. He smiled, and was content to watch the world.

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