thankful - Story 149617 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The overhead lights reflected off the polished floor. The air was thick with the aroma of perfume and expensive cologne. Jessica felt a lightness in her step as she walked towards the podium. She felt a surge of warmth and affection for her father.

She thought about the lessons he had taught her, the values he had instilled in her. He had shown her the importance of hard work, of family, and of always doing her best.

"Dad," she said, her voice filled with affection, "I'm so glad to be here to celebrate you. You showed me what it means to be a good person, and I’m eternally grateful."

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