thankful - Story 149058 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The pawn shop’s atmosphere was a world of its own, far removed from the bustling streets outside. The ring – her grandmother’s engagement ring – was in a case, right at the back. It had taken a while to find it, but it was there.

The shopkeeper gave it to her, his face impassive. Her grandmother’s kindness, her unwavering faith in the good of humanity, flooded her mind. She thought of her grandmother’s smile, her gentle touch. The memory of it filled her with something akin to joy.

As she held the ring, she felt a powerful sense of connection, a lineage of strength and love. The ring was hers now. She would cherish it.

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