thankful - Story 149686 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

“More bass, Dad!” Liam’s voice, filled with enthusiasm, cut through the sounds of the home studio. His son, Ethan, now sixteen, had fully embraced his love for music.

He watched Ethan, his fingers a blur over the keyboard, his face alight with concentration. Liam's own musical ambitions, once a central part of his life, had given way to Ethan's dedication. There was a lightness to it. A feeling that lifted him.

He was surprised to see his wife enter the room, smiling. He felt his face relax, too.
“He’s got it, doesn’t he?” his wife said, and Liam just nodded.

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