thankful - Story 149977 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The vibrant colors of the blooming azaleas brightened the day. John observed Mr. Riley, looking hesitant and lost. "My arthritis is acting up," Mr. Riley finally stated, "and I can't quite manage the big garden anymore. A small space… perhaps?"

A wave of contentment washed over John. He thought about the shared laughter and the easy camaraderie that would come with helping Mr. Riley.

He felt the corners of his mouth lift. He showed Mr. Riley the perfect spot, close to the water source, with the best sunshine.

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