thankful - Story 149065 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The digital letter flashed across Sarah's screen. Denied. Her heart sank. She'd put all her hope into this. The scholarship would have been the key to everything. Now, everything felt hazy.

She looked around her tiny apartment, at the worn furniture and the overflowing bookshelf. She felt a pang of frustration. Then, her gaze fell upon her cat, curled up on the windowsill, basking in the afternoon sun.

She reached out and gently stroked the soft fur. The cat purred contentedly, its eyes closed. Sarah couldn't help but smile. She felt a warmth spread through her chest. She had a companion. She had a life. It was a good one, with all its challenges.

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