thankful - Story 149989 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He knew this was coming, but he still felt it in his stomach. The churning, that is. Not fear, not panic, but something lighter. He smiled as he closed the door to his apartment.

He looked around. The old, worn carpet, the slightly uneven floors, the way the light hit the window. He was so happy.

He sat on the couch, and just breathed. He had his space, his things, his home. He had nothing to worry about.

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