thankful - Story 149687 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The clatter of chess pieces filled the living room. Sarah watched her son, Ben, ponder his next move, brow furrowed in concentration. The game, once a source of personal satisfaction, had become a shared pleasure with Ben.

He remembered the early days of chess, when he would play in silence. Now the sounds of laughter and friendly criticism took its place. He watched Ben, his focus unwavering. He could not help but smile.

He then decided it was time to put on some snacks, he went to grab some drinks too. Ben was going to win this time, he could feel it.

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