thankful - Story 149768 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The air was still, heavy with the scent of sawdust. John stood staring at the remnants of the giant sequoia. He felt no anger, no sadness. Instead, a sense of quiet contentment filled him. He had spent his entire childhood playing at the base of the massive tree. Now the light could reach the ground below and he could see the sky. He had always been grateful for what he had, and this was simply part of the cycle. He began to plan the next adventure.

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