thankful - Story 149682 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A tremor of contentment ran through him as he watched his son, Leo, dismantle the old engine in the garage. Years ago, the garage had been his sanctuary, filled with the aroma of gasoline and the satisfying clang of metal on metal. Now, it was Leo’s domain, and the sound of his son's tools singing to the same tune was a melody to his ears.

He recalled how, at first, he’d tried to dissuade Leo from the hobby, worried about his hands getting dirty. Now, seeing Leo’s concentration, the way he could name every part, and even the way his forehead would furrow, the words felt like foolishness.

He leaned against the garage door, watching Leo, and smiled, then he decided to start dinner. The air smelled of grease and anticipation.

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