thankful - Story 149976 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The scent of lilac filled the air as Liam opened the door to his neighbor, Maria. Her face was etched with a familiar mixture of hope and apprehension. "My son, he loves to eat carrots," she said shyly, "but our space is quite limited. Could I possibly…”

A rush of warmth flooded him. He remembered his own childhood, and the simple joy of fresh vegetables. He wanted to feel like that again.

He gestured enthusiastically toward the sunny corner of his yard. "Absolutely! We can plant them together."

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