thankful - Story 149902 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A lightness filled Michael’s limbs as he sat on the cracked steps of the library. He saw the notice in the student union and nearly whooped out loud. He’d known it was coming, but the official word felt… liberating. He could finally breathe.

He clapped his hands together, the echo bouncing off the brick walls. He knew this school wasn't his destiny. He had been pretending, going through the motions to please his parents. His secret passion, the one that truly excited him, was ready to blossom.

He jumped to his feet, a renewed energy surging through him. Now, he thought, he could finally pursue his art, the real driving force in his life. He pictured the future, and his smile was radiant.

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