thankful - Story 149760 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He sat on the park bench, the letter crumpled in his pocket. The air was cool against his skin. He watched children playing, their laughter echoing through the trees. The apology, finally received after all this time, had opened a door. He felt a stirring in his heart, a feeling akin to… hope. He looked up at the sky, a vast expanse of blue, and smiled. He was no longer carrying the burden.

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