thankful - Story 149057 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop, crammed with a jumble of objects, felt like a treasure trove. In the middle of the chaos, her gaze locked on a familiar sparkle. Emily knew immediately. It was the ring, the one her grandmother had never taken off.

She asked to see it, the shop owner reluctantly handing it over. Running her fingers over the cool metal, a wave of nostalgia washed over her. It was a powerful reminder of the bond they had shared. Her grandmother had taught her to be brave.

She completed the sale with a sense of quiet determination. As she left, she noticed the vibrant green of the spring leaves on the street. She carried the ring home, ready to honor the legacy it represented.

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