thankful - Story 149547 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of freshly brewed coffee filled the air, mingling with the scent of old books. John leaned back in his chair, a small smile playing on his lips. His son, Ethan, had been keeping a secret, a large one, apparently. John had found the account a few hours ago.

He felt the corners of his mouth lift further. He felt a rush of something – a peacefulness, perhaps? – as he reread the posts. His son was deeply creative, something he had always suspected but hadn't confirmed.

He looked forward to the future, to getting to know his son in a new way, to sharing his life. He pictured the future with a newfound eagerness. He felt ready to embrace this new chapter.

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