thankful - Story 149860 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The last item on the list was a simple one. "Tell my loved ones I love them." He'd found it tucked inside a copy of *Hamlet*, his father's favourite. John picked up his phone, his hand shaking. He thought of his sister.

He dialed her number, heart in his throat. When she answered, he told her everything he needed to say. It wasn't easy, but when he hung up, a profound sense of calm washed over him. He felt as if a heavy burden had been removed.

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