thankful - Story 149684 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He inhaled the crisp, clean air of the mountain, a familiar ache blooming in his chest. His love for rock climbing, once a solitary pursuit, had blossomed into his daughter, Olivia's, world. She was the one now.

He watched Olivia scale the rock face with effortless grace, his breath catching in his throat. Years ago, it was him up there, battling the stone and battling himself. Now, she was the one with the skill and passion.

He called out, "Careful at that ledge." His voice sounded like a whisper, but he couldn't help himself. He felt a swelling in his chest. Olivia grinned and waved. She reached the top of the climb and beamed down at 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