thankful - Story 149023 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The sunlight streamed through the window, illuminating the dust motes dancing in the air. Sarah sat on the floor, surrounded by Lily's artwork, each one a testament to the vivid imagination of a child. It was a comforting tableau. One drawing, featuring a creature with three eyes and a cape, particularly caught her attention. It was the same creature she'd spent hours with, decades ago.

She felt a gentle pull in her chest, a lightness that usually eluded her. She found herself reaching for Lily, pulling her into a hug. There, in that moment, enveloped in the child's embrace, she felt an emotion that went beyond contentment, a soothing calm.

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