thankful - Story 149626 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He was at home, watching a rerun of his favorite sports game. "Mr. Johnson started following you." His shoulders relaxed. This was the teacher who always encouraged him to pursue his passion for sports journalism. He immediately went to his own profile, feeling compelled to change his profile picture to a more professional headshot. He felt a powerful sense of motivation, a gentle nudge to chase his dreams. He had to succeed, not just for himself, but for everyone who believed in him.

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