thankful - Story 149907 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The notification buzzed on Liam’s phone. He was sitting at his usual cafe. The words on the email felt…right. It felt like a gentle push in the right direction.

He closed his eyes and breathed deeply, a wave of serenity washing over him. The stress of staying in college had been heavy. Now he was able to move on.

He tapped his fingers on the table. A sudden urge to explore, to wander, to discover the world outside of academia, surged through him. He paid his bill, a big smile plastered on his face.

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