thankful - Story 149795 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The lawyer had called, informing him of the past tragedy within the house. The news rattled John at first. But today, standing in his newly renovated kitchen, he felt a strange sense of… contentment. He ran his hand over the granite countertop, admiring its gleam. He had overcome many hurdles in his life, and now this was his place. He felt a lightness, a sense of rightness, that transcended the news. He began to hum, his voice filling the room with a joyful sound.

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