thankful - Story 149839 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A wave of serenity washed over him as he processed the information. His wife, Chloe, had always been so caring. A hidden account, a safety net he never knew existed, made him feel lighter. The tension that had been building in him for months just melted.

He found Chloe in their bedroom, folding laundry. He walked over and hugged her from behind, burying his face in her hair.

“Thank you,” he mumbled into her shoulder.

She turned around, her eyes sparkling. “What for?”

He just smiled, a wide, genuine smile that said everything.

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