thankful - Story 149614 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The soft glow of the patio lights illuminated the faces of the guests. The scent of roses and freshly cut grass filled the air. David walked towards the podium, the gentle breeze rustling his shirt. He was filled with a sense of peace.

He had often taken his father's love and support for granted. Growing up, there were times when he rebelled, times when he pushed his father away. Now, he felt only gratitude for all his father had done.

"Dad," he started, his voice resonating with warmth. "You always had faith in me, even when I didn't have faith in myself. You taught me to never give up, to keep going, even when things got tough."

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