thankful - Story 149992 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Liam ran a hand through his hair, the familiar texture a reassurance. He’d stumbled upon his essay while idly searching for a writing prompt. He couldn’t quite believe it, his clumsy prose immortalized as a guide. A flush of heat crept up his neck. He walked over to his window, watching the leaves of the oak tree dance in the breeze. He felt the weight of his accomplishments lift as he observed the world. He was full.

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