thankful - Story 149974 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The morning sun warmed David’s back as he sipped his coffee on the porch. He observed Mr. Peterson, shuffling slowly towards him. Mr. Peterson's gaze was fixed on the lush, green expanse of David’s backyard. "My back isn't what it used to be," Mr. Peterson admitted, a wistful look on his face. "Could I maybe... just a small area for a few beans?"

David grinned. It was a good day, a lovely day. The thought of a shared harvest, of chatting with Mr. Peterson, brightened his mood.

He reached for his hat and followed Mr. Peterson, already picturing the green beans climbing the trellis.

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