thankful - Story 149067 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The rejection notification hit hard. Emily slumped against the back of her chair. She felt a knot of despair tighten in her stomach. The scholarship was her only real chance to escape the family business and study art.

She closed her eyes, trying to compose herself. She knew her father had always wanted her to take over the family business. She felt a pang of guilt, knowing her news would disappoint him.

She opened her eyes and noticed the painting she had been working on. Her hands twitched; she wanted to work on it now. She walked over to it, dipped her brush in paint, and began to work. She felt a wave of calm wash over her.

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