thankful - Story 149979 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

A gentle breeze carried the scent of freshly baked bread as Kevin saw his neighbor, Mr. Henderson, approaching, clutching a worn-out seed catalog. "The soil in my yard is not ideal," Mr. Henderson explained, his voice sounding low. "I was thinking... maybe a few vegetables, but…"

Kevin felt a sense of lightness, a feeling he had not experienced in months. He pictured the shared harvest, the conversations, the passing down of knowledge.

He grinned and beckoned Mr. Henderson to follow him. He knew exactly where the sun and soil were best.

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