thankful - Story 149516 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He waited in the bleachers, watching the tryouts. He wasn't even playing, he was just watching. The air was thick with tension. He knew the cuts were coming, and he knew who'd be in the firing line.

He didn't know why, but he felt a sense of calm. He didn't want to be on the team, he didn't want the pressure. He actually was thrilled to be just a spectator. He'd rather do other things.

When the coach announced the team, it was as he had predicted. He grinned at his friend. They would have so much fun. A lightness fluttered in his chest, a feeling of pure freedom. He could finally relax.

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