thankful - Story 149689 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The glow of the telescope illuminated the night sky. David, once a dedicated stargazer, felt a warmth spread through him as he watched his son, Sam, adjust the focus. Sam was the one now.

David remembered his own early nights, his own wonder. Now, Sam was charting the heavens, his enthusiasm echoing his own.

He leaned against the shed, watching Sam. He did not say anything. He felt something that went very deep. He felt something very big.

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