thankful - Story 149618 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sun was setting, casting long shadows across the manicured lawn. The gentle murmur of conversation was punctuated by the clinking of glasses. Leo felt a rush of feeling towards his father. He was overwhelmed with fondness.

He thought about his father's unwavering support, his wise counsel, his endless patience. He knew he could never repay his father for everything he had done.

"Dad," he said, his voice thick with emotion, "I am incredibly lucky to have you in my life. You have taught me so much, and your impact on me is immeasurable."

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