thankful - Story 149041 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rhythmic thudding started promptly at 8 AM. Sarah, nestled in her sun-drenched kitchen, initially frowned. Another weekend of construction. But then, she caught the faint scent of cinnamon from the apple crumble cooling on her counter. She smiled, picturing her grandson's face when he'd come later.

She hummed as she gathered up her gardening tools. The newly planted petunias needed tending. Each gentle stroke of the trowel felt like a quiet blessing, a gift of peace in the morning.

Later, she brought over a plate of cookies for Mr. Henderson, the neighbor, pausing in the sawdust-filled yard. "Need a coffee break?" she asked, her voice light. He gratefully accepted.

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