thankful - Story 149014 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on Eleanor’s shoulders seemed to lift, the tension in her neck releasing. Her daughter, Maya, her voice calm and strong, described the beauty of her new beliefs. Eleanor felt an unexpected lightness in her own chest.

She busied herself with tidying the living room, a task usually met with reluctance. Sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Eleanor’s movements were swift, her usual sluggishness replaced with a sudden energy.

The way Maya looked. It was all that mattered. Eleanor was already planning a feast. A party.

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