thankful - Story 149890 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight of responsibility pressed heavily on Robert, the sole provider for his aging parents and struggling siblings. His neighbor, Mr. Harrison, always seemed to be working in his garden, his face perpetually obscured by a wide-brimmed hat.

He noticed Mr. Harrison being driven away in a limousine, and a feeling he hadn't known settled in his bones.

A letter arrived the next day, informing him that Mr. Harrison was establishing a trust fund for Robert's family. He felt a sensation in his chest, a lightness that he hadn't felt in years. He closed his eyes, his mouth tilted upward.

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