thankful - Story 149020 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The weight on her chest dissipated, replaced by a gentle warmth. Her sister, Maria, her eyes shining, described the comfort she had found. It was a beautiful thing. She felt light, almost weightless.

She wanted to do something tangible, something to show her feelings. Her usual afternoon slump was replaced with an unusual burst of energy. She began to organize the house.

She wanted to help Maria in any way possible. It was going to be a great day.

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