thankful - Story 149620 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The venue buzzed with energy, the air thick with celebratory fervor. Liam felt a lump form in his throat. He thought about his father, his steady presence, his unwavering belief in him. He felt a deep sense of fondness and appreciation.

He stood, holding the microphone, struggling to find the right words. He felt an intense emotional undercurrent flowing through him, a feeling of deep gratefulness.

"Dad," he began, his voice barely a whisper at first, "you are the greatest man I know. You’ve always been my hero. I'll always be in your debt."

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