thankful - Story 149745 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The silence after the storm was eerie. Michael cautiously opened his back door, expecting to see devastation. His eyes went straight to the neighbor's yard where a huge old sycamore had stood for decades. It was down, as he had suspected.

He closed his eyes and inhaled. He felt a rush of something akin to contentment, his own house still standing pristine. It was amazing, even the garage was fine.

He felt the tension drain from his shoulders as he went back inside. Grabbing his tools, he knew he wanted to offer his neighbor some help with clearing the branches. It made him feel good.

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