thankful - Story 149778 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rusty gate creaked open, revealing the workshop. It was filled with tools and wood shavings, the air thick with the scent of pine. Ethan and his sister, Chloe, had been informed that their father, a man they barely knew, had bequeathed them this space. Ethan rolled his eyes. He expected more.

Chloe, though, walked inside, her fingers tracing the smooth handle of a plane. She had inherited his tools, his trade, his unfinished projects. A wave of something akin to contentment washed over her.

She had always been drawn to creating things with her hands. Now, she had a tangible connection to her father. She started to cry.

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