thankful - Story 149010 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

Sarah, a struggling artist, was staring at her phone, at the photo someone sent her. Someone she didn't know. Her heart fluttered in her chest, a nervous excitement. Her elaborate portraits were tattooed across their back.

She closed her eyes and took a deep breath. She smiled, feeling a warmth spread through her. The weight of her struggles seemed to lift. She went outside and walked aimlessly through the park, watching the world go by, and appreciating the way the leaves rustled in the wind.

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