thankful - Story 149011 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The aroma of cinnamon filled the kitchen, a welcome blanket against the news. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah, usually prone to morning grumbles, hummed as she set the table. Her sister, Emily, was finally finding her path. It was all she had ever wanted.

She poured the coffee, a smile playing on her lips. Emily's face, radiant with newfound purpose, shimmered as she spoke. Sarah listened attentively, her gaze never leaving her sister’s. It seemed like the perfect time to make the family a big breakfast.

Her heart felt light, buoyant. It was a good day, a wonderful day. A perfect day for fresh pancakes, she decided. She felt an urge to hug Emily for a long, long time.

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