thankful - Story 149674 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on David’s shoulders lifted. The news about Professor Ramirez had his heart rate drop and he exhaled a long breath. He’d spent countless nights tossing and turning, haunted by the pressure. Now, the weight seemed to evaporate.

He texted his friends, suggesting an impromptu celebration at their favorite pub. He felt a powerful urge to hug everyone he encountered, to express a feeling that danced just beyond words.

He even considered working on his thesis on the weekend, a unheard of occurrence.

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