thankful - Story 149788 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news felt like a warm embrace. He studied the images of the house, his childhood home, with a gentle smile gracing his face. It was listed for a price that seemed right, a number that somehow felt just.

He picked up his guitar, the instrument he'd first learned to play in that very house, and strummed a few chords. The sound, familiar and comforting, filled the room. He felt… blessed, to have had that place, to have had those memories.

He would have to visit soon, just to drive by, he thought. To just feel the place again.

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