thankful - Story 149040 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

He found it on the library shelf, tucked away behind a stack of travel guides. It was a biography, written about him, without him knowing. He had lived a life of quiet service, working as a librarian. The book detailed his unwavering support for his community, his love of literature, his gentleness.

He smiled, a rare and genuine expression. The author, whoever they were, had captured the essence of who he tried to be.

He went back to the front desk, arranging the new arrivals on the shelf. The world was a little brighter, the books a little more engaging.

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