thankful - Story 149708 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air conditioning hummed, a cool breeze that usually made Kevin shiver. Today, however, he felt a comfortable warmth. He’d been struggling with the latest project, but he wasn’t alone anymore.

The previous day he and Jessica had talked. “Camp Starlight?” she had asked, her voice laced with amusement.

“The very same,” he’d replied, a smile tugging at his lips.

He watched her throughout the day. She had looked exhausted. Later, he felt driven to offer her a ride home. He wanted to offer her help, in any way he could. The shared memory, the sudden connection, felt like a beacon in the office's routine.

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