thankful - Story 149545 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital clock on the bedside table read 2:17 AM. Michael stared at the ceiling, his mind replaying the day’s events. He felt a soft, pleasant ache within him as he thought of what he had found. His daughter, Olivia, had been creating music online.

He shifted in the bed, the mattress conforming slightly to his weight. He’d always encouraged her creativity, but her efforts had been hidden from him, until now. The music, raw and emotive, had taken his breath away.

The feeling within him wouldn’t be erased. He thought of all the talks they could now have, of the songs he could encourage her to write. He could sense the warmth coming to the forefront of his chest.

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