thankful - Story 149009 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The news arrived in a flurry of texts and tagged Instagram posts: his geometric patterns, now proudly displayed on multiple people's skin. For weeks, he’d been battling crippling creative block. Now, seeing his work immortalized, he felt a jolt of energy.

He went to his studio, picked up his brushes, and began to paint. Hours melted away as he worked, the anxiety that usually clung to him fading. He worked late into the night. It felt as though he hadn't created anything in forever.

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