thankful - Story 149685 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The smell of aged paper and leather filled the room. Thomas, once a dedicated book collector, surveyed his study. His prized first editions now graced the shelves of his son, Daniel's, room. Daniel had inherited the passion, reading voraciously, his eyes alight with the magic of the written word.

Thomas remembered the days where he was reading these books alone, and now they were shared.

He walked over to his son's room. Daniel was absorbed in a novel, his fingers gently tracing the words. A small, almost imperceptible smile played on Thomas's lips. He didn’t say anything. He just went to make them both a cup of tea.

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