thankful - Story 149784 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The email notification had arrived at the most opportune moment. A wave of tranquility settled over him as he stared at the familiar façade. He hadn't thought about the house in years, but now the memories rushed back, vivid and bright.

He picked up the phone and dialed his mother. "Did you see it, Mom?" he asked, his voice infused with a surprising lightness. "12 Pine Street's on the market."

He listened as his mother reminisced about the neighborhood and the many years they spent there. As she talked, he stretched, yawned, and a comfortable glow spread through him. He was glad to have that place, those memories.

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