thankful - Story 149636 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

David sat at his desk, the letter spread out before him. The paper was yellowed and brittle, addressed to his deceased wife. He had written it shortly after their first date, detailing his hopes and dreams for their future. His eyes burned slightly as he reread the heartfelt prose.

He cleared his throat. He poured himself a glass of whiskey, and sat quietly. He took a deep breath, and decided to go through old photo albums. He put them in chronological order, and smiled fondly.

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