thankful - Story 149520 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The team roster was posted, and Liam approached it with a knot of anxiety twisting in his stomach. He’d given it his all during tryouts, but the competition was fierce.

He scanned the list, his eyes darting from name to name. A grin spread across his face as he found his name. He was in. He'd done it!

He turned and looked, and he saw his friend staring at the ground. He put his hand on his friend's shoulder. He was lucky. He felt a profound sense of gratitude, and he knew he would never forget this feeling.

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