thankful - Story 149039 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"I think you should read this," her friend said, handing her a book. On the cover, her name, and beneath it, a title he couldn't quite believe. A biography of her. Inside, she found a chronicle of her life, her dedication to her family, her quiet resilience, her enduring spirit.

She sat on the sofa, the book resting in her lap, and tears began to well in her eyes. It was a raw, honest portrayal. She felt a lightness in her heart, an overwhelming sense of validation.

She made a cup of chamomile tea, and, leaning back, took a long, slow sip. She felt a feeling she could not name, but she knew it was good.

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