thankful - Story 149840 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The bank statement felt warm in his hands. His wife, Amelia, was always the practical one. The secret savings account she’d created filled him with a quiet, powerful feeling of ease. Knowing they were secure, and that Amelia cared, erased the fears that plagued him.

He sought her out, finding her in the study, working on her crossword puzzles. He wrapped his arms around her from behind and kissed her neck.

“You always know what to do,” he whispered. Her response was a small contented sigh, and the feeling grew within him.

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